William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I began to research the concept of dimensionality from the point of view of quality, and not just quantity, as a mathematician… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
There's one other interesting thing about Western democracy. It didn't arrive at the end point that Karl Marx thought it would that… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
How full and rich a world Theirs to inhabit is-- Sweet scent of grass and bloom, Playmates' glad symphony, Cool touch of… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
President Trump repeatedly says that "America is the highest-taxed country in the world." This is an alternative fact. We pay less in… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At that time, I was still in an experimental stage, trying to blend Western drawing techniques and Chinese brushwork together. It was… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
“Arms still crossed, Lindsay's clogs tapped on the sidewalk. “So Sam didn’t tell you I was a desperate orphan child with no… — Lilly Christine Copy Share Image
A lot of artists are scared to do that, they are scared to step out on their own. What am I the… — Shane Bunting Copy Share Image
For a while they wore suits or pants suits, and pants suits are kind of a women's appropriation of male costume, work… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the… — Robin Cook Copy Share Image
...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“You know, you really don't have to kill anyone over this. I'll get an annulment. It will be like never happened" His… — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
There can only be one answer to this hideous act of jihad against the staff of Charlie Hebdo. It is the obligation… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
We now have some years of very reliable polling by Western firms in the Islamic world, in multiple Islamic countries. And invariably,… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment – you just chew it… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
This issue of expanding the reach of international criminal law by reliance on the use of Universal Jurisdiction by domestic courts needs… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat… — Gary North Copy Share Image
I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, in the 13th/19th century philosophy began to see itself as a complete replacement for religion as one can see in the… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions like Kraftwerk, most great 20th century Western music is in some way American-based. And the great paradox of… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“distance and found no smoke. We drank our coffee and ate fresh venison killed by Short Bull, and then we straddled our… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“In the West, people learn through the Socratic tradition. The education system was influenced by Western philosophy and is based on constantly… — Sharanya Haridas Copy Share Image
The bad news is that the movement toward the partnership side of the social scale (and it is always a matter of… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Women had been on the verge of taking over the world-the Western world, anyway. Then some sexist pig in Silicon Valley invented… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
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