When you think after 25 years of Mao, Chinese people had no idea about western music or even western culture. They had… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
“Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. Poetry is a popular genre… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or… — Anonymous 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
“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
“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
“When you don’t stop evil in its tracks when you first recognize it, you will end up with a monster force that… — Brigitte Gabriel 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
North Korea's sin is that it refuses to surrender, to fall on its knees, to sacrifice its people. It refuses to become… — Andre Vltchek 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
In earlier cultures with pagan belief systems, light and dark were celebrated equally, people were around death a lot. In contemporary Western… — Robert Eggers 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
“We were nobodies, two young lit. students chatting away in a rickety old house in a small town at the edge of… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something… — Andrew Lincoln 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
The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
“Really feeling your body move and the life inside of yourself is critical. Western culture is astoundingly disembodied and uniquely so.” — Krista Tippett 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
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
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
“We no longer say, ‘It’s in their blood.’ We say, ‘It’s in their culture.’ Thus European right-wing parties which oppose Muslim immigration… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture. — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image