Views Quotes
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I see stereotypes as fundamental and inescapable and not as something that is... The kind of common view is "Oh, we shouldn't think in stereotypes," and I think the reality is we can't help but think in stereotypes.
W. J. T. Mitchell -
Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.
F. M. Powicke
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My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.
Barack Obama -
The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.
Lao Tzu -
The way the play was written originally is that in the end Henry Higgins and Eliza separate because they aren't compatible because of Eliza's feminist views. They wanted a happier ending for the musical.
Luke Ford -
The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
Madeleine Albright -
I lived with people who had varied opinions, some of whom did not accept my Nazi views. I encouraged this. If a man said something that was critical of me or my ideas, I wouldn't consider him an enemy.
Baldur von Schirach
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I do know the Bible very well from a Protestant point of view - which is what, along with my reason, entitles me to refute it. You can't rationally reject something until you know all about it.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One.
Zeno of Elea -
Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.
Joanne Rowling -
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
Octavio Paz -
I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosexual orientation as the norm from which to start as the given. And everything that fell outside of that was not acceptable.
Michael Eric Dyson -
The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
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Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless.
Patrick Henry -
Instead of thinking about other people's thoughts and views of you, just think "I have to do well myself," and you'll be able to do well.
Yesung -
If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view.
Haile Gerima -
Islam will be destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the arguments of the hypocrites who misinterpret the Qur’an to support their views and misleading rulers.
Umar -
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.
Elizabeth Janeway -
For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts is, from an aesthetic point of view, grotesque. But you seem compelled by that risk in order to get to the other end of the equation.
Zadie Smith
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I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.
Umberto Eco -
He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.
William Hazlitt -
At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.
Arthur Frommer -
Reality makes no sense at all, except possibly from God's point of view
Lori Singer