Quotes About Perspective

Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

There's no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don't understand this.

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.

I don't have any insight or understanding on anything about the government. All I think is that it's stupid - which is the one perspective that's almost completely lacking in Washington.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.

[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.

I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)

We (libertarians) find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.