Quotes About Demonize

#1. It's easy to demonize from a distance.

Rick Warren

#2. I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.

Fred D'Aguiar

#3. If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life, that's unnerving. You don't want to think it's as normal as the guy next door, hedging his lawn. It's easier to demonize or separate them off from 'us.'

Michael Moore

#4. It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.

Alan Moore

#5. People demonize me; people idolize me; everything I say and do has been scrutinized.

Cindy Sheehan

#6. Jesus doesn't dominate the other, avoid the other, colonize the other, intimidate the other, demonize the other, or marginalize the other. He incarnates into the other, joins the other in solidarity, protects the other, listens to the other, serves the other, even lays down his life for the other.

Brian D. McLaren

#7. Easier to demonize than to understand, and that's the truth on both sides of every war.

Plague Jack

#8. The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment.

Henry Giroux

#9. ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments.

Thomas Sowell

#10. We shouldn't demonize the woman who wears high heels and we shouldn't demonize the woman who doesn't wear high heels. We should accept all forms of comportment.

Laverne Cox

#11. If you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life.

David Levithan

#12. There's plenty of ways you can go and encourage people. And you should do that. But don't demonize what you do, I do, what other comics are doing, when you see people showing up and listening and responding because they've heard the messaging in the new kind of way.

Lizz Winstead

#13. Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America.

Chris Christie

#14. You can demonize Goldman Sachs all you want, and I'm sure there are reasons to do it. But the real pressure is all of us pressuring the companies for stock returns, and that leads to all kinds of decisions.

John Wells

#15. I don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds of communication is extraordinary. Interesting times we live in.

Anne Waldman

#16. A lot of unpredictable things happened in the Republican party, but I think the notion that we're gonna demonize Donald Trump or we're gonna mischaracterize him is completely unfair.

Anthony Scaramucci

#17. I understand that we should never lose our right to be offended, so I accept it. But for me it was always a study of human behavior because if we just demonize it, it becomes unreal.

Wendell Pierce

#18. And I certainly wouldn't demonize an entire people on the basis of 3 blurry photos and a few paintings

Guy Delisle

#19. It's so easy to begin to demonize someone you think is so far removed and as the demonization begins to expand, it ends up being everybody but your friends. After a while everybody else but you. That is a slippery slope that is so easy to slide down, and that's what is dangerous.

Cornel West

#20. Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.

Margaret Atwood

#21. Our Western press soldiers from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, etc. (often 1 correspondent for every 200 million Chinese), happily manufacture stories, demonize the Chinese government, and fabricate heroes, saviors, and incidents for China, at will.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#22. We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.

Greg Boyle

#23. To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.

Bob Black

#24. The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accomplished fairly well, even without overturning Roe v. Wade .

Ellen Willis

#25. I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney's going to backfire. Their attempts so far have failed pretty outstandingly and I think at the end of the day, people are going to say, 'what was Obama's record?' Governor Romney's got pro-growth Reaganesque proposals on the table.

Steve Forbes

#26. If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.

Foster Friess

#27. are we willing to demonize a population, declare a war against them, and then stand back and heap shame and contempt upon them for failing to behave like model citizens while under attack?

Michelle Alexander

#28. Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

Warren Farrell

#29. Liberals insist they believe as strongly in the American dream as the rest of us, but routinely demonize those who succeed in attaining it. They loudly profess their allegiance to capitalism, but resent the inequitable money results it produces.

David Limbaugh

#30. Set boundaries and keep them. People will drown you with their need, and demonize you for not filling their emptiness.

Colleen Doran

#31. I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.

Aaron Sorkin

#32. I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

Edward Snowden

#33. Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

Susana Martinez

#34. The minute you think you have gotten on God's good side by your own behavior, you are naturally prone to demonize those who haven't.

Jefferson Bethke

#35. People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

Jasmine Guy

#36. If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.

Steven Pinker

#37. Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

Jonathan Haidt

#38. Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to be loved. I'm not trying to demonize the fashion industry - I love the fashion industry - but style is about taking the control out of the industry's hand and having you decide what works for you.

Stacy London

#39. Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

Jonah Goldberg

#40. I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.

Norman Finkelstein

#41. I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

Barbara Kruger

#42. We need to be united, and we all need to understand that we're all capable of achieving the American dream. And, but that has to be something that is self-realized. And also, to demonize someone for achieving the American dream is unfair.

Stacey Dash

#43. You see Democrats who will demonize business. I don't do that. You see Republicans who demonize labor. I don't do that.

Tim Kaine

#44. I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people; that's human being to human being.

Cornel West

#45. Predation is so fundamental to nature that it seems absurd to demonize it for any animal, including humans.

Jackson Landers

#46. The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians.

Ronald H. Nash

#47. People demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters ...

John Geddes

#48. It is so easy to demonize free-market and the freedom to outsource and offshore because it is so much easier to see people being laid off in big bunches, which makes headlines, than to see them being hired in fives and tens by small and medium-sized companies, which rarely makes news.

Thomas L. Friedman

#49. Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-Hispanic. That's why Obama ignores the broad support for an immigration plan that would provide border security once and for all and then deal with the illegal immigrants who live here.

Ben Shapiro

#50. Whenever a society wants to demonize a particular group, it prohibits them from marrying.

Sheila Kuehl

#51. When absorbing the sadness of the loss, we must concentrate on bad guys to demonize, or black holes of sympathy in which we get to play the cosmic victim of terrible circumstances. Demonizing and victimizing are the sources of those stories in which we can get so woefully stuck

John P. Schuster

#52. Do I believe in demonic possession?
My thinking is more aligned with 'demonization' in the context of Christianity & Spirit-filled believers, whereas I am quite certain an 'unbeliever' can possibly become 'possessed' by a demonic spirit('s).

R. Alan Woods