If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
John Barton

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
John Boyd Orr

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams

Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.
Spencer Bachus

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.
Trevor Nunn

In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.
Andrei Sakharov

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.
Garry Trudeau

In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society.
Kenzo Tange

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.
Donald Rumsfeld

In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too.
Johnnie Cochran

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
Aristotle

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.
Morris Raphael Cohen

It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on the odd occasion, but I am not going to stop saying what I think.
Pauline Hanson

It is well known that I am pro-life... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.
Stockwell Day

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
Henry A. Wallace

It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command.
George Crook

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
Manuel Puig

It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.
Heather Matarazzo

It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.
Carl Karcher

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
Lamar S. Smith