Henry Rollins Quotes

When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage.

Not everybody gets to travel halfway around the world to see a whole different perspective. If we can see that on TV, we'll know that society is bigger than the small world we all live in.

I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware. So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself. And so anything from the travel stories I tell, that's what I'm trying to get across.

I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.

You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

If we are going to lead the world, we have to know where it is.

What images do we see from the rest of the world? We see natural disasters, war, terror. We see refugees, and we see horrible diseases. Right? We see beautiful beaches, cute animals, beautiful nature, cultural rites and stuff. And then we're supposed to make the connection in our head and create a worldview out of this. And how is that possible?

I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.

I understand different cultures because I have travelled a lot.

America is not the world.

There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is and to acquaint students and scholars from many lands with America as it is-not as we wish it were or as we might wish foreigners to see it, but exactly as it is-which by my reckoning is an "image" of which no American need be ashamed.

A sad figure (Bush) ' not too well educated, who doesn't get out of America much. He's leading the country towards Fascism.

You have to realize there are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more.

The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a sense of mental independence.

Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain.

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

A lot of the attitude I used to have about being from New York when I was younger just disappeared when I started to the rest of the world.

I have a big bias to the people who understand global aspects.

I have been brought up watching world cinema, and I have travelled a lot, so I am very comfortable with my body.

I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of political culture.

It's important that we have a global perspective and look abroad and learn from our neighbors.

Social media is my portal into the rest of the world - my periscope into the communities next to my community, into how the rest of the world thinks and feels.