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
In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
I believe Western culture -- rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. -- is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions… — Mark Steyn 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 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
Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
“Unless the relationship of law to Christianity is re-established, there is no future except destruction for Western culture.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you ask me, I'd say what the world now considers K-Pop began with SM Entertainment. SM was the very first company… — Lee Tae-min 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
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 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
I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
“Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people’s lives, the mythical moment in which one knows… — Eva Illouz Copy Share Image
Western culture is what is at risk from immigration from the Middle East. — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
“Moreover, the question at hand concerns modes of operation or schemata of action, and not directly the subjects (or persons) who are… — Michel de Certeau 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 the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with… — Terry Eagleton 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
“Postmodernism is not a theory or a creed: it is more like an attitude or a way of looking at things. It… — Heath White Copy Share Image
The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western… — Desmond Tutu 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
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
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“science at its best was a flower of Western culture, unbiased, apolitical, transnational, open, and progressive. It destroyed superstition and cant. It… — Thomas Hager Copy Share Image
