“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
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
“In this huge old occidental culture our teaching elders are books. Books are our grandparents!” — Gary Snyder 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
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
“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
“The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything,… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“In spite of the messages of Western culture, personal fulfillment lies in connection, not autonomy. Spirituality is the discovery of the fundamental… — David Timms Copy Share Image
“Prayerful Christians can help to correct Muslim misconceptions about the Bible (e.g., by showing that the Bible does not sanction the sinfulness… — Ted Cabal Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the central belief of multiculturalists, Western culture has achieved far more than other cultures in many significant spheres and has… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“I mightn't be a shaman in the indigenous sense, but as a world-bridger between Western culture and the indigenous world, I knew… — Rak Razam Copy Share Image
So he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“On a whim, Pisit calls the monk back to ask what he thinks of all this, and Western culture in general. After… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
“On the one hand, all truth is relative; on the other hand, postmodernism tells it like it really is. On the one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you see someone offering namaz in a public place, don’t panic — you can call the police. But when you see… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
“The ufo is nothing more than an assertion of herself by the Goddess into history, saying to science and paternalistically governed and… — Terence McKenna 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world. — Jimmy Lai 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
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 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
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
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
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
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