“It is essential to realize that the Christian community in the past was not a pious ideal, but a juridical fact which… — Christopher Henry Dawson 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
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. — Stephen Gardiner 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
The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by… — Carl Rogers 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
“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
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
47 Ronin is a very special movie for me. Not only a Samurai thing. Not only a Hollywood fantasy. It has a… — Hiroyuki Sanada Copy Share Image
Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything,… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“The Reich Chancellor undoubtedly lives in belief in God. He recognises Christianity as the builder of Western culture. { Comments by Archbishop… — Michael von Faulhaber Copy Share Image
“secular, pluralistic, Western culture? There are several other “pressure points” at which our culture in the West is vulnerable to challenge. Western… — Timothy Keller 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
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
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
“Are we so invested in the Western cultural captivity of the church that we are unable to accept God’s right judgment on… — Soong-Chan Rah Copy Share Image
You look at the Koran or the Bible, they all tell the same stories. You see them as the stories of the… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating… — Sheila Jeffreys 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
“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to… — Dave Hickey 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
“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
“School of Resentment is a term coined by critic Harold Bloom to describe related schools of literary criticism which have gained prominence… — Harold Bloom 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
“Reading The Waste Land, then, is in part reading about reading in the early twentieth century. The crisis in epistemology brought on… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“Art—real art—connects artists, and their art, and those who experience their art, to the metaphysical background of the world, to the imaginal… — Stephen Harrod Buhner Copy Share Image
“Thus European right-wing parties which oppose Muslim immigration usually take care to avoid racial terminology. Marine Le Pen’s speechwriters would have been… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Although I have suggested that American culture tends to favor the side of independence over the side of inclusion (and I would… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
“And they lived happily ever after” is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It is tragic because it tells a… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue. — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
I had this question when we started: Is this something that's only going to work in New York City? And then, is… — Nathan Blecharczyk Copy Share Image
It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me… — Jamie Hewlett Copy Share Image
“In Western culture, the 'miracles' referenced in scripture seem to have been relegated to the past as if to imply that they… — Mark Ireland 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
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. — Ayn Rand 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
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