The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting. — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions. — Charlemagne Palestine Copy Share Image
The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization. — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere. — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
I am not an individualist in the Western sense. Collectivism can become oppressive when it tries to dictate; the rights of the… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one… — Ellen Gustafson Copy Share Image
That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not… — Brian Reynolds Myers Copy Share Image
The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
If we have an element of Americans here that reject western civilization, and that's a big element, that reject western civilization, then… — Steve King Copy Share Image
Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old]… — John Reader Copy Share Image
I was asked in an interview once: You're writing another book with a female lead? Aren't you afraid you're going to be… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
They can say that abortion is alright. They can vote to sustain gay marriage. And that will take western civilization, indeed other… — Katherine Harris Copy Share Image
The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
Please, accept the most sincere words of sympathy over the natural disaster that affected the United States . I know that hurricane… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I talk to the young generation and advise them to be both fully Muslim and fully Western citizens, to be free, to… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Obama, who is becoming more and more preacher-like, wants to be the Punisher-in-Chi ef of the Western World, the Avenger-in-Chie f. There… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
I love the whole futuristic landscape of dark, rainy neon, the mix of Eastern and Western cultures and the beautiful shots of… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Turns out ovaries work just as good as balls when you're in the driver's seat.” — Reece Butler Copy Share Image
When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture. — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
I grew up with Western films, and I always wondered why Bollywood never made films like that. Why do we always have… — Ram Gopal Varma Copy Share Image
Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended, — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization—any kind of civilization—disappears. — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'... — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image