Objectify Quotes

#1. Those who believe they are ugly / objectify the rest of us.

Judy Grahn

#2. A terroir only exists by virtue of one's childhood mythology ... we have invented these words of tradition rooted deep in the land and identity of a region ... because we want to solidify and objectify the magical, bygone years that preceded the horror of becoming an adult.

Muriel Barbery

#3. Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

Ruth Hubbard

#4. You want your partner to objectify you.

Patricia Arquette

#5. The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#6. Oh shit did you just dis the feminine gender
I'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blender
You think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhyme
But I got flow like Ghostbusters got slime
Objectify women and it's fuckin' on
You'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon.

John Green

#7. The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.

Barbara Kruger

#8. For we rationalize, objectify, and personalize the process of the game exactly as we do that of a play, a drama. For, finally, it is a drama, with meaning for our lives. Why else would we watch it?

David Mamet

#9. Prince is king to me. As this half-naked, short black guy who looked like a girl in the 70s and 80s, he was talking about women in a way that was very unusual because he didn't objectify them.

Robyn

#10. Men. We love them. We respect them. But we rarely get to objectify them.

Leslie Mann

#11. You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into thinking that you are a particular state of being.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

Roger Ebert

#13. I don't objectify women. I'd like to think that I'm optimizing their hardware.

Ted Nugent

#14. I am saddened when I hear these words -this is not the person I knew - because those words objectify the person suffering from Alzheimer's. When you objectify a person you also dehumanize them. Once dehumanized the person becomes a villain.

Bob DeMarco

#15. If we harm someone else, we're inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us to be able to objectify someone else, to deny them as a living, feeling being - someone who wants to be happy, just as we do.

Sharon Salzberg

#16. The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she's wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don't stop lust by covering up the female form; we stop lust by teaching men to treat women as human beings worthy of respect.

Rachel Held Evans

#17. Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people.

John Green

#18. Capture the feeling associated with your realized wish by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of the thing you desire, and your wish will objectify itself.

Neville Goddard

#19. To name is to dominate, to categorize, to subjugate and, quite literally, to objectify

Charles Eisenstein

#20. By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.

Tim O'Brien

#21. Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it's doing, look at what it's promoting, look at what it's condoning. All the while, we have to live in this lie that there's some sort of Republican War on Women. We don't do this to women! We don't objectify women like this.

Rush Limbaugh

#22. Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

Susan Sontag

#23. I don't objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they're usually awful.

Ian Astbury

#24. She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale.
"DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted.
Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts."
"That's not any better!

John Green

#25. I have four daughters. A lot of the time, I don't allow myself to be in projects that objectify women.

Terry Crews

#26. Diet/food/eating should NEVER be the means by which you objectify yourself, disconnect from yourself, judge yourself, or worst of all, reject and hate yourself.

Scott Abel

#27. One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express ...

Marianne Moore

#28. A bunch of liberals wanted to outlaw men gazing at women because the gaze was said to objectify women. Sorry, liberals, it can't be helped among the heterosexual crowd.

Rush Limbaugh

#29. I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.

Malaika Arora Khan

#30. You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

Tony Kushner