Classifying Quotes:

My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy.

- Ron Paul

topic: Mean, Government, Views, Espionage, Snowden

Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

- Annie Jump Cannon

topic: Stars, Study, Structure, Classifying

A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic.

- Thomas Sowell

topic: Thinking, White, People, Census, Classifying

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

- William James

source: William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.47, 谷月社

topic: Purpose, Way, Particular, Classifying

Of course, intersectionality theory is a confused muddle. It fights racism and sexism by classifying everyone according to race and sex. It views race and gender privilege as the root of all evil, while ignoring the role played by dogmatic ideologies held by all genders. And it is unfalsifiable - to its adherents, criticism and rejection of the theory actually demonstrate its truth, by showing how deeply we all have internalized our oppression.

- Christina Hoff Sommers

source: "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

topic: Sex, Confused, Fighting, Intersectionality, Classifying

I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.

- Marshall McLuhan

source: "Letters of Marshall McLuhan". Book edited by Corrine McLuhan, Matie Molinaro and William Toye, March 1, 1987.

topic: Culture, World, Way, Classifying

They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.

- Theodor Adorno

topic: Historical, Might, Wealth, Schoenberg, Early Work

This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong. Ultimately, it provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack. It is a language of demands.

- Marshall B. Rosenberg

topic: Communication, People, Demand, Nonviolent Communication, Defensiveness

When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.

- Johnny Carson

source: Source: www.alex-haley.com

topic: Thoughtful, Issues, Finding Yourself, Classifying, Serious Issues

Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. The arrogance of those who come later preens itself with the notion that the past is dead and gone. The modern mind can no longer think thought, only can locate it in time and space. The activity of thinking decays to the passivity of classifying.

- Russell Jacoby

topic: Past, Thinking, Space, Classifying, Banality

Everything is starting to make a little more sense to me now. I love the idea that, first of all when I made the record I don't look at the music by classifying it. People have a problem classifying me as pop, or rock, or folk, or alt. The beauty for me is that a thirteen year old girl can fall in love with the record and so can her mom. I tend to gravitate towards artists that are timeless and don't sound dated.

- Courtney Jaye

topic: Girl, Mom, Falling In Love, Classifying, Thirteen Year Olds

The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are distinguished and known by classifying them methodically and giving them appropriate names. Therefore, classification and name-giving will be the foundation of our science.

- Carl Linnaeus

topic: Names, Ideas, Giving, Classifying, Classification

People are in the habit of classifying life’s activities into those which are mundane and those which are religious. Remember, though, only those things done for the sake of Allah are the ‘religious’ things. Everything that is done for other than Allah – however ‘religious’ it may seem – is a worldly act… If he earns thousands of pounds to support his family and to spend for the cause of Allah, seeking only Allah’s pleasure, it is a highly spiritual act.

- Khurram Murad

topic: Spiritual, Religious, People, Classifying

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

- Paul Ricoeur

topic: Meaningful, Expression, Ordinary, Classifying

Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.

- Thomas Szasz

topic: Errors, Whales, Feelings, Classifying

Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.

- Merlin Stone

source: Merlin Stone (2012). “When God Was A Woman”, p.250, Doubleday

topic: Acceptance, Calling, Might, Classifying, Conceiving

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Love, Romantic, Issues, Classifying, Separating

In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi ... To neglect the c-properties in classifying stellar spectra, I think, is nearly the same thing as if a zoologist, who has detected the deciding differences between a whale and a fish, would continue classifying them together.

- Ejnar Hertzsprung

topic: Stars, Thinking, Whales, Classifying, Stellar

It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect the historical development of races from different standpoints; and that the results of the three classifications are not comparable, because the historical facts do not affect the three classes of phenomena equally. A consideration of all these classes of facts is needed when we endeavour to reconstruct the early history of the races of mankind.

- Franz Boas

topic: Character, Race, Class, Classifying, Historical Facts

Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

- Marshall B. Rosenberg

topic: Communication, Judging, People, Nonviolent Communication, Classifying

Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.

- Marshall B. Rosenberg

topic: Communication, Miracle, Analyzing, Miracles Can Happen, Classifying

To allow same-sex couples to adopt children and then to label their families as second-class because the adoptive parents are of the same sex is cruel as well as unconstitutional. Classifying some families, and especially their children, as of lesser value should be repugnant to all those in this nation who profess to believe in "family values."

- Stephen Reinhardt

topic: Sex, Couple, Children, Classifying, Adoptive Parents

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Dream, World, Biosphere, Classifying