Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“I think of it like a caterpillar--a wrinkly, ugly worm with traces of dull colors on it. But when the worm metamorphoses,… — Sara Walter Ellwood Copy Share Image
[Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did.… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system’s failure to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
History down through the centuries has proved again and again that there can be but one outcome to a struggle for selfish… — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr Copy Share Image
In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak. — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There are many feminists who work in the media, and they think that feminism is very important. It is in their own… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
“Right and wrong isn’t a matter of ethics, rather it’s the geography in which you reside and whose control you’re under. Tallinn… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
But there is a more virulent strain at the root of Western Lysenkoism today. Scientists, like Holdren and Michael Mann, can be… — Peter Ferrara Copy Share Image
In the West we are free to think what we want, to read what we want, to practice our religion, to live… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence. — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time. — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love… — Lana Parrilla Copy Share Image
China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image