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
My new work deals with emptying my body: 'Boat emptying, stream entering.' This means that you have to empty the body/boat to… — Marina Abramovic 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
“This is clearly cultural imperialism, which explains why Western culture is, in fact, the sole (main) global culture. Yet, this is consistently… — Sov8840 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
“Rather, the society was wide open to popular Western culture at the very time when it was being drawn towards conservatism and… — Tarek Osman 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
In France, we have laïcité, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
[Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
It's a pleasure to land here and see Australia upholding its commitment to free speech and Western culture - something that may… — Lauren Southern Copy Share Image
Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties… — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage,… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and… — Neal Stephenson 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
I think angels definitely offer all the imaginative possibilities that vampires do, and I think they've actually been popular in Western culture… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
There is certainly a longstanding idea within western culture that civilization is only a thin veneer. As soon as something happens, say… — Rutger Bregman 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
We're used to saying that women in other cultures are oppressed, but the question that I had when making the film was:… — Maimouna Doucoure Copy Share Image
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most… — John Howe Copy Share Image
A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
“the impulse toward excessive self sacrifice comes from women's history, not their nature. The reason self-sacrifice seems so natural for women in… — Stephanie Golden 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
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
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
They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history… — Jaroslav Pelikan 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 short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you're a Christian you've got to… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
In looking at difficulties in the black American community over the years, it has always astounded me how much white Americans take… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
In our traditional culture, people have a very different view towards nature than in Western culture. We consider humans as part of… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
“In Western tradition, white is beautiful because it is the colour of virtue. This remarkable equation relates to a particular definition of… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
“As a society of unbelief, Western culture is devoid of a sense of journey, of adventure, because it lacks belief in much… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society.… — Willis Harman Copy Share Image
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