Standpoint Quotes

The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of learning terms and phrases but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution. It is not just a matter of understanding the general laws derived by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin from their extensive study of real life and revolutionary experience, but of studying their standpoint and method in examining and solving problems.

Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.

When you write for somebody else, you've got to write from their standpoint. You can't really write from your own point of view.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black women. In other words, Black feminist thought encompasses theoretical interpretations of Black women's reality by those who live it.

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

I am no advocate of passivity.

Judge Bradley says of the electoral commission: "I firmly believe that the differences of opinion were honest and arose from the different standpoints of individuals." Not a doubt of it; seven members of the commission looked at the question from a standpoint of self-interest, and eight considered it from one of personal advantage.

You defend the truth no matter what.

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

I love to defend.

Either back us or sack us.

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

It is always easy to take a position when society agrees with you. It is hard to take a position that everyone else in society disagrees with.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Where you stand depends on where you work.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

I will never, ever apologize for being passionate about the things that I believe in, and it is just that, it is just an opinion, and people don't have to share my opinion.

I'm willing to negotiate, but not compromise my core principles.

As far as from a standpoint of success, the only person who is in a position to make a claim like that sort [for the 'King Of The South' title] would be Lil Wayne - as far as success from a numbers standpoint. As far as longevity and success, that's the only person I feel like can say that.