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
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
The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity. — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“Religious pluralism is a popular belief in Western culture. At first it sounds very inclusive, but it is really just as exclusive… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“Islamic cultures tend to establish people of high status as authorities, whereas the authority in Western culture is reason itself.” — Nabeel Qureshi Copy Share Image
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture. — Orhan Pamuk 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
“in a modern Western culture, where the main idol is self; and its main doctrine is autonomy; and its central act of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“With tybo men there isn't much difference between fucking and killing.” — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share Image
I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Try repeating “man is an animal" a few times, just to notice how unconvincing it sounds. There seems to be no way… — Becker Ernest Copy Share Image
I realize that I've had a very idyllic vision of what spirituality looks like. Honestly, most of Western culture has an idyllic… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it… — Ajahn Brahm Copy Share Image
If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it.… — Samuel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When western culture developed, we became detached from nature, detached from our relationship with the animals. We saw animals perhaps as only… — John Kani Copy Share Image
All I can say is that we cannot shut our eyes to Western culture if that is not going to suit ours. — P. T. Usha Copy Share Image
