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
In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than… — Margaret J. Wheatley 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 our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying… — Ram Dass 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
With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries…What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or… — Lee Kuan Yew 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 Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western… — Cynthia Breazeal 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
“Is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the second, by the Grace of God, still monarch of any African realm? No. this couldn’t be… — S. A. David 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 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
If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to… — Dave Hickey 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
For people who must fear for their lives because of their religion or political convictions, the protection provided by Article 16a of… — Horst Seehofer 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
“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
“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
47 Ronin is a very special movie for me. Not only a Samurai thing. Not only a Hollywood fantasy. It has a… — Hiroyuki Sanada Copy Share Image
I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
It's incredible being a woman. I was, of course, fortunate to have an Irish mother who is an empowered woman. She comes… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
Being 'out and proud' can feel like a real luxury of Western culture, where people are often white and see existing white… — Tan France 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
For a long time Christianity has sewn its teachings into the fabric of Western culture. That was a good thing …. But… — R. R. Reno Copy Share Image
“if the church fails to make the shift to apostolic movements again, Christian influence in Western culture will continue to fade, and… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
In Western culture, particularly North America, a lot of rules are descriptors for sociopathy: a general acceptance of lying as long as… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
I believe that human brilliance manifests itself only in flashes, among rare individuals. For this reason, humanity as a whole is enormously… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
“The expansionary dynamic of Western culture has been the root, the denominating constant, of modern history. The grandeur of Western liberalism, its… — Carl Oglesby Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we struggle to grasp the biblical view of joy because of the way it is defined and described in Western culture… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the… — Edwin A. Locke Copy Share Image
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