I realize that I've had a very idyllic vision of what spirituality looks like. Honestly, most of Western culture has an idyllic… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in… — Majel Barrett Copy Share Image
American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
When I returned to Russia in 1994, the Western world and its states were practically being worshipped. Admittedly, this was caused not… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first… — Andrea Mitchell Copy Share Image
One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“I didn't mean to upset you, Ms. Hamilton," his gaze shifted back to her. "It's a beautiful sight and I thought you'd… — Debra Holland Copy Share Image
Now the world believes in Kurds, as they have become partners in that region. The West doesn't believe in the Iraqi government… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. The industrial civilization of the Western world has no intent to destroy… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Visitation Day - I was not even born yet when the world stopped turning, twenty years ago. It is hard for me… — Philip Webb Copy Share Image
England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss… — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
I tend to lean more towards the Westerns of the 40s and 50s as opposed to the 60s and 70s. They get… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame are not normal, everyday malware, of course. All three of them were most likely developed by a Western… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's devastating. His policies and his presidency are devastating. But I have this confidence that he's not gonna succeed in total… — Rush Limbaugh 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
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
It is tragic that so few young people in Western democracies vote. They have forgotten that their ancestors fought for the right… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it.… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I'm not sitting around saying, 'Man, I'd really love to direct a western.' That's just not something I'm probably going to do,… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For most western executives, innovation is about breakthrough technology or innovation. If it's not breakthrough, it's not interesting, and it's all about… — John Hagel III Copy Share Image
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