“I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.” PeopleThinkingLongPoliticalCultureCoursesImpossiblePerspectiveLong TimeFascinatedSecularIgnored Author:Tom Perrotta
“To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.” PeopleMenWayPersonsSometimesPoliticalNextBeliefFeetHe ManPerspectiveWork OutRageBuddhistObliviousPolitical Beliefs Author:Mike White
“Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions- all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.” HumansGovernmentPoliticalOrderProcessHuman BeingsEconomyPerspectiveDiversityEconomicsInstitutionsCharacteristicsManifestElitesContrastMonopolyAttemptingGeneticsReproductionPolitical PowerTop DownRegulatorsCentralizationHuman Diversity Author:George Gilder
“Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.” PeopleWantNeedsLooksMaySometimesPoliticalMissingPerspectivePsychologicalHaiti Author:Jean-Bertrand Aristide
“During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.” LongChristianPoliticalFatherCareersPerspectiveCommunicateActiveEvangelical Author:Preston Manning
“When you think about a presidential candidate spending all of his or her time talking to that tiny, tiny fraction of us who have the capacity to fund political elections, it's obvious why the perspective of government is skewed relative to what most Americans care about.” ThinkingGovernmentCarePoliticalTalkingPerspectiveCapacityElectionObviousSpendingTinyPresidentialCandidatesFundRelativeFractionsPresidential CandidatePolitical Election Author:Lawrence Lessig
“the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live inside another person's skin. It creates empathy. And that's the antidote to bigotry. The novel doesn't just tell you about another life, which is what a newspaper would do. It makes you live another life, inhabit another perspective. And that's very important.” PersonsImportantPoliticalLiteratureNovelSubjectsPerspectiveEmpathySkinsInstrumentsNewspapersBigotryInvitesAntidoteAnother Life Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“I would have to ask the questioner. I haven't had a chance to ask the questioners the question they've been questioning. On the other hand, I firmly believe she'll be a fine secretary of labor. And I've got confidence in Linda Chavez. She is a - she'll bring an interesting perspective to the Labor Department.” BelieveHumorHandsPoliticalAsksChanceInterestingHavensPerspectiveFineLaborDepartmentQuestioningSecretaryPolitical HumorChavez Author:George W. Bush