In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Western culture is what is at risk from immigration from the Middle East. — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'... — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young,… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what… — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
I love the whole futuristic landscape of dark, rainy neon, the mix of Eastern and Western cultures and the beautiful shots of… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“Islamic cultures tend to establish people of high status as authorities, whereas the authority in Western culture is reason itself.” — Nabeel Qureshi Copy Share Image
The positive nature of some child-adult sexual relationships is not confined to non-Western cultures. Several of my friends - gay and straight,… — Peter Tatchell Copy Share Image
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
It's sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it's… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
If you ask me, I'd say what the world now considers K-Pop began with SM Entertainment. SM was the very first company… — Lee Tae-min Copy Share Image
According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“His approach, enjoying small spots of nature every day rather than epic versions of wilderness and escape, made sense to me. Big… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“Western culture has some common wisdom associated with these ideas. Don’t be materialistic. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. Sticks and… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
“When you don’t stop evil in its tracks when you first recognize it, you will end up with a monster force that… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
“Because cultural difference has long been conceived as a redemptive solution to the ambivalence of a Western culture established in the destruction… — Deborah Root Copy Share Image
“Our culture tends "to regard the mere energy of impulse as being in every mental and moral way equivalent and even superior… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On a whim, Pisit calls the monk back to ask what he thinks of all this, and Western culture in general. After… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“We were nobodies, two young lit. students chatting away in a rickety old house in a small town at the edge of… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“In Western culture, we are also profoundly shaped by the ethics of individualism. We learn early on to follow our own stories… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people’s lives, the mythical moment in which one knows… — Eva Illouz Copy Share Image
“The novels of Daniel Defoe are fundamental to eighteenth-century ways of thinking. They range from the quasi-factual A Journal of the Plague… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Science fiction writers construct an imaginary future; historians attempt to reconstruct the past. Ultimately, both are seeking to understand the present. In… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“In postmodern discourse, truth is rejected explicitly and consistency can be a rare phenomenon. Consider the following pairs of claims. On the… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“War -- is a last ditch moral nightmare. People begin worshiping a mysterious slouching beast, following after, bowing down, offering gifts, making… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“Really feeling your body move and the life inside of yourself is critical. Western culture is astoundingly disembodied and uniquely so.” — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture. — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image