Quotes About Objectifying

#1. I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don't have a problem playing a guy who objectifies women.

Emilio Estevez

#2. Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life.

Donald Phillip Verene

#3. We need to stop objectifying our women in what we call our second religion ... Our films. And our TV shows.

Anurag Kashyap

#4. The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.

Burton Silverman

#5. Part of me, a really bad, objectifying, and dirty part of me wanted to stand them up next to each other and make them pour water over their heads while I watched.

Rachel Higginson

#6. I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

Ethan Hawke

#7. Adina sat up. "It's denigrating and objectifying."
"No. It's eye shadow and lipstick and sex and mystery and magic and transformation and fun. And nobody's taking that away from me. You will pry my Petal Power lip gloss out of my cold, dead hands," Shanti insisted.

Libba Bray

#8. I don't think anyone should apologize for being sexy if it comes from a genuine place, if they're not being forced into an objectifying situation.

Olivia Wilde

#9. Playing the sex object may not be dangerous for Miley Cyrus, with her bodyguards to protect her, but for a 13-year-old girl hanging out at a party at night, it can be. So I think it's fair to say to musicians: "Objectifying yourself is not the best choice."

Keli Goff

#10. I have learned to write about things that are personal without objectifying anybody or anything, and that's been an important lesson for me. It's useful not to dump on people while simultaneously expressing a truth or a feeling if it's necessary, without diluting the intensity of the lyric.

Martha Wainwright

#11. Are you objectifying that young woman?" I said. "Absolutely not," Hawk said. "I thinking about her with her clothes off.

Robert B. Parker

#12. When a guy writes a scene where a woman does a deviant sex act on camera, it's objectifying. But when a woman writes it, it's feminism.

Whitney Cummings

#13. Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you're sketching them. They can look at you and say, 'Oh man, you got me wrong.'

Molly Crabapple

#14. I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

Barbara Kruger

#15. I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

Barbara Kruger

#16. Hyperrealism is more about objectifying ... how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens ... all my paintings are about an object being viewed through human eyes.

Liu Dan

#17. I like thinking of the writer as a kind of curator; the collection as curiosity cabinet - in a non-demeaning, non-objectifying sense - but an array, a set of offerings.

Leslie Jamison

#18. The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-conception through objectifying self-description is not science, but bad philosophy.

Jurgen Habermas

#19. The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk about a transcendent power to which both we and the world are subject is hampered and obscured by the objectifying character of its assertions.

Rudolf Bultmann

#20. The mythology of the New Testament, also, is not to be questioned with respect to the content of its objectifying representations but with respect to the understanding of existence that expresses itself in them.

Rudolf Bultmann

#21. It's funny, 'cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it's not at all.

Joel Parkinson

#22. Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#23. The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump ... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

Thomas Eakins

#24. But it is hard to resist the feeling that 70th was some kind of golden age.

Manolo Blahnik

#25. Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.

Germaine Greer

#26. I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.

Saina Nehwal

#27. I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like 'Butter' to show that. And it's perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don't find the right thing.

Ashley Greene

#28. I'm not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I'm on holiday. I do enough shopping when I'm at home, and like to have a complete break when I'm away.

Paloma Faith