Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us,… — Noam Chomsky 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
“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
“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
“In the world of animals, pain serves an equivocal role. Parental nips and swipes are common tools in upbringing. And socially, pain… — Geoff Mains 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
“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
One of the popular views in the liberal circles of the West is that we are actually 'all victims of capitalism'. I… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Many people in Western culture are striving for success. They want the home, they want the great business. They want all of… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
“modern Western culture, you’ve been brainwashed by what is called “the secular worldview.” In this view of the world, what’s real, or… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates… — Bell Hooks 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
This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing… — Tiziano Terzani 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
“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
“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
“In western narrative, isolation is liberation, the elderly is inconvenient, apathy is aesthetic - invasion is ambition, exploitation is exploration, indifference is… — Abhijit Naskar 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
“When you focus on lack and scarcity and what you don’t have, you fuss about it with your family, you discuss it… — Rhonda Byrne 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
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
“Whatever may be the cause of this crisis, it is certain that it is a spiritual one, since it represents the failure… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
I love the whole futuristic landscape of dark, rainy neon, the mix of Eastern and Western cultures and the beautiful shots of… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
