“I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.” FeelsAmericaPerspectiveEurope Author:Elia Kazan
“I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.” SchoolPerspectiveEuropeEducatedJournalistDivinity Author:Krista Tippett
“For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule.” IfsWorldYearsLongHas BeensAmericaTermHalfEconomicRevolutionPerspectiveEuropeIndiaChinaGoldenLong TermExceptionDominanceNorth AmericaOutputIndustrial RevolutionChina And IndiaGolden Years Author:Paul Achleitner
“Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.” NeedsWritingWellsBookSchoolTeachPerspectiveEuropeCollectives Author:Bernard-Henri Levy
“I can officially state that my government and myself believe that all over Europe we need to open a debate on the 'drug question' in order to create more coherent and human policies with better perspectives. . . . The policy of criminalizing consumers has failed, creating many problems to our society.” NeedsBelieveHumansI CanStatesProblemGovernmentOrderPolicyPerspectiveDrugCreatingEuropeDebateConsumersOur Society Author:George Papandreou
“This was absolutely an attack on [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair, principally, and the perspective which is really predominant in Europe right now that he's not questioning enough of Mr. Bush's policies.” EnoughSongDogPolicyPerspectiveRight NowEuropeBritishMinistersPrimeQuestioningPrime MinisterBlair Author:George Michael
“Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.” ThinkingWorldWayFilmTelevisionPerspectivePhotographyEuropeInstanceProjectionModernismCubismMatisseOceania Author:David Hockney
“So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very kind of staid perspective. Again, there are charismatic white congregations all over, and they don't sing that way. But, you know, on the average.” KnowsWayMindKindBodyWhitePerspectiveEuropeTraditionAverageCongregationCharismatic Author:Michael Emerson
“Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries, Russia and Turkey, stretch between the two continents - , Europe, from the beginning, has defined itself from the perspective of the constitutive specificity of its philosophical principles: the freedom of the Greek cities as opposed to the Asian despotic regimes. Although these principles were often contradicted and reversed into their opposite, the idea of Europe is inseparable from them.” TwoIdeasCountryCitiesPrinciplesPerspectiveEuropeOppositesPhilosophicalEastRussiaBoundariesDefinedGreekDistinctionRegimesContinentsConsideringDefiniteAsiaTurkeysAsianInseparablePossessingSpecificity Author:Roberto Esposito
“America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already lived there including very developed societies such as the Incas, the Aztecs, and the Mayans. But then came the European vision that saw the conquest as a source of advanced growth away from medieval Europe. The new revolutionary bourgeois trend formed a new perspective on what was democracy that they saw as an improvement to the democracy of ancient Greece.” PeopleNeedsWholeAmericaGrowthVisionDemocracySawsGroupsSourcePerspectiveEuropeIncludingAncientImprovementRevolutionaryTrendsConquestGreeceMedievalBourgeoisNew PerspectiveAncient GreeceMayansMedieval EuropeIncas Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.” ImportantCountryAmericaDifferencesTaughtPerspectiveMetsEuropeImportant ThingsParisLatinLatin AmericaLatin American Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez