Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

Wesley Morris

If I like a movie, I'm definitely advocating for it, but it's not "you should see this" or "you shouldn't see this." I try to take a longer view about what the movie is doing and where it fits in the context of other things, in the way that certain good literary criticism tries to do the same thing.

Wesley Morris

Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.

Wesley Morris

I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has to say is not really important to me.

Richard Rohr

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

Trevor Nunn

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.

Van Wyck Brooks

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

Umberto Eco

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.

Robert Pozen

We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

Malcolm X

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

Noam Chomsky

We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially re-doing what happened under Reconstruction. That's the history of African Americans - so how can any one say there's no problem. Sure, racism is serious, but it's worse than that.

Bill Maher

Denying racism is the new racism

Ayn Rand

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

Jane Elliott

Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned

Constance Baker Motley

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

Coretta Scott King

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

Daniel Tosh

I'm not a racist or misogynist person, but I find these jokes funny, so I say them.

Andrew Hacker

Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.

Robert Trout

The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

William Cobbett

All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.

Margo Timmins

When we do get to the point where things aren't good, we know how to smarten up and fix it before it gets ugly.

Neil Cavuto

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

Miuccia Prada

Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.

Lauren Myracle

I loved everyone who said yes to the world and tried to make it better instead of worse, because so much in the world was ugly- and just about all the ugly parts were due to humans.

Lauren Oliver

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

Eli Wallach

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

Phil Ochs

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.