Social Perspective Quotes

If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

You have a different experience as a woman walking through life; you just do.

And that is what the perception is by the American left, who hates Christendom.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

This is what I would ask of the American people, and that is, and the media does not do this terribly often - put things in contact.

Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary bias. There is no reason to suppose that any one culture has seized upon an eternal sanity and will stand in history as a solitary solution of the human problem. Even the next generation knows better. Our only scientific course is to consider our own culture, so far as we are able, as one example among innumerable others of the variant configurations of human culture.

Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!

I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence.

When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

My rap comes from a sociological standpoint rather than picking a particular side or dogma or ideology. I just want people to be free to do what they want, as long as they don't harm others.

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

I am often asked why men don't get as worked up as they might about women - particularly poor women - having to use their bodies as prostitutes. Because most men unconsciously experience themselves as prostitutes every day - the miner, the firefighter, the construction worker, the logger, the soldier, the meatpacker - these men are prostitutes in the direct sense: they sacrifice their bodies for money and for their families.

Mann was less interested, I think, in constructing any kind of "portrait of an age" than he was in delineating an individual consciousness in which profound struggles about identity and direction arise - struggles that Mann himself had not only reflected on but felt keenly. Visconti takes up this central focus of the novella, but he couples it with a more social perspective.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.