Limited Perspectives Quotes

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.

When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view.

A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world.

In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying.

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.

There were two kinds of people in our town. The stupid, and the stuck.

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

Where you have 20 people who all share roughly the same educational and life experiences, they're going to come up with the same solutions to the same problems.

We are all prisoners of the ideas of the times we live in.

There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.

I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.

We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.

Talking with people who agree with you is like jogging in a cul de sac.

I'm not the only one that people try to put in a box. I think it's easier for people to understand things when they can categorize them.

We all go through life living in little bubbles, which we share with people who think pretty much the same as us.

Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.

You all would be really shocked, if you were dropped back down into when I went to college, by the narrowness of the opinions you could get just by reading newspapers and magazines and watching TV.

Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments and frustrations.