Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There is no question that Korean footballers have the ability to play in Europe. The real challenge is whether they will be… — Park Ji-sung Copy Share Image
Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as… — Karl-Henrik Robert Copy Share Image
The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity. — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I had this question when we started: Is this something that's only going to work in New York City? And then, is… — Nathan Blecharczyk Copy Share Image
There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue. — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic” movement in Western culture… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Color is one way the eye and the brain work together to define the external world. However, not all cultures see color… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
“We are relational creatures. All humans live in community and most people seek social interaction. In western culture, isolation is seen as… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
“in a modern Western culture, where the main idol is self; and its main doctrine is autonomy; and its central act of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Whereas, in the west, individuality and drive are considered positive qualities, they are not seen the same way, in Japan. In that… — Alexei Maxim Russell Copy Share Image
With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries…What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the wall and grant some… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude.… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy,… — Elisabet Sahtouris Copy Share Image
“thought of as more genteel This myth has been seen as the forerunner of the immaculate conception of the modern God, Gentle… — Christopher Hyatt Copy Share Image
“This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Paranoia is a pathological possibility built-in to all conceptual thinking, the "dark side of cognition" and the typical symptom of the "half-educated."20… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“Religious pluralism is a popular belief in Western culture. At first it sounds very inclusive, but it is really just as exclusive… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“We no longer say, ‘It’s in their blood.’ We say, ‘It’s in their culture.’ Thus European right-wing parties which oppose Muslim immigration… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Reading The Waste Land, then, is in part reading about reading in the early twentieth century. The crisis in epistemology brought on… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“You fling the book on the floor, you would hurl it out of the window, even out of the closed window, through… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Although I have suggested that American culture tends to favor the side of independence over the side of inclusion (and I would… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
“Thus European right-wing parties which oppose Muslim immigration usually take care to avoid racial terminology. Marine Le Pen’s speechwriters would have been… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Art—real art—connects artists, and their art, and those who experience their art, to the metaphysical background of the world, to the imaginal… — Stephen Harrod Buhner Copy Share Image
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not. — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me… — Jamie Hewlett Copy Share Image
“In Western culture, the 'miracles' referenced in scripture seem to have been relegated to the past as if to imply that they… — Mark Ireland Copy Share Image
The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it.… — Samuel Ruiz Copy Share Image
