Western culture Quotes

When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

— Park Chan-wook

When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.

— Mary Beard

Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

The most important word in American, in Western culture, is "I."

— Gene Simmons

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

— Anonymous

Western culture is what is at risk from immigration from the Middle East.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture

— Fons Trompenaars

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.

— Eliza Griswold

“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters…

— Helen Morales

“Islamic cultures tend to establish people of high status as authorities, whereas the authority in Western culture is reason itself.”

— Nabeel Qureshi

“Really feeling your body move and the life inside of yourself is critical. Western culture is astoundingly disembodied and uniquely so.”

— Krista Tippett

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

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

— Ibn Warraq

Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.

— Margaret Visser

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot…

— Thomas Sowell

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

The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes…

— Anonymous

“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

The majority of Western culture came out of Europe, which is not comparable to America. It came out of nation states based…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

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

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

“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

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

“in a modern Western culture, where the main idol is self; and its main doctrine is autonomy; and its central act of…

— Anonymous

I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“On a whim, Pisit calls the monk back to ask what he thinks of all this, and Western culture in general. After…

— John Burdett

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

“Modern Western culture has tended to dwell too much on the character of her “anger.” For example, a misogynist trend in psychoanalysis…

— Miriam Robbins Dexter

“When you see someone offering namaz in a public place, don’t panic — you can call the police. But when you see…

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“On the one hand, all truth is relative; on the other hand, postmodernism tells it like it really is. On the one…

— Anonymous

“The ufo is nothing more than an assertion of herself by the Goddess into history, saying to science and paternalistically governed and…

— Terence McKenna

“The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“In postmodern discourse, truth is rejected explicitly and consistency can be a rare phenomenon. Consider the following pairs of claims. On the…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“Science fiction writers construct an imaginary future; historians attempt to reconstruct the past. Ultimately, both are seeking to understand the present. In…

— Naomi Oreskes

“War -- is a last ditch moral nightmare. People begin worshiping a mysterious slouching beast, following after, bowing down, offering gifts, making…

— Daniel Berrigan

“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

“In Western culture, we are also profoundly shaped by the ethics of individualism. We learn early on to follow our own stories…

— C. Christopher Smith

“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

“The novels of Daniel Defoe are fundamental to eighteenth-century ways of thinking. They range from the quasi-factual A Journal of the Plague…

— Ronald Carter

“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