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
Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world. — Jimmy Lai Copy Share Image
“With relentless selectivity, the Communist machine has winnowed out the grain and retained only the chaff of Western culture.” — Richard Crossman Copy Share Image
“In western culture colostrum has, until recently, been viewed with indifference. The focus has often been on ‘waiting for the milk to… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good… — Steven Pinker 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
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
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
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm in a film that's from a perspective that is dominant within western culture... I'm always trying to prove myself. When… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
Asked to make a list of the men who have most dominated the thinking of the modern world, many educated people would… — Ernest Van den Haag 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
“The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing… — Tiziano Terzani 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
We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
“Moreover, the question at hand concerns modes of operation or schemata of action, and not directly the subjects (or persons) who are… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it… — Ajahn Brahm Copy Share Image
“In a segment of the Sermon on the Mount, appearing in Matthew 5, Jesus is reported to have set six new teachings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Declaration of Independence says that ‘all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights;… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
“The “Sons of the Pioneers” are amongst America’s earliest Country/Western singing groups. One weekend we’d drive south of the border to Tijuana,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“And they lived happily ever after” is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It is tragic because it tells a… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“Try repeating “man is an animal" a few times, just to notice how unconvincing it sounds. There seems to be no way… — Becker Ernest Copy Share Image
“Ancient Ways Considering their favorable strategic location, pleasant climate, and natural beauty, is it any wonder that the Greek Isles became the… — Laura Brooks Copy Share Image
“When a liberal professor takes enormous intellectual liberties by openly promoting an ideological agenda to his students, the cry of academic freedom… — Gary L. Bauer Copy Share Image
“School of Resentment is a term coined by critic Harold Bloom to describe related schools of literary criticism which have gained prominence… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
“In this huge old occidental culture our teaching elders are books. Books are our grandparents!” — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch'… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
Our [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas,… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not… — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
“Put plainer, my sense is that western culture would be a damn sight poorer today if John Lennon had been forced to… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image