Modern Western Quotes

14 quotes by 11 authors

• Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. — Tadao Ando
• Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront… — Ajahn Brahm
• A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility. — Stephen Baxter
• Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose… — Arnold J. Toynbee
• The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer. — Shulamith Firestone
• Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture. — Margaret Visser
• By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact,… — Fatema Mernissi
• Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women… — Fatema Mernissi
• I made music on Seven the same way as on the other albums. I only used acoustic instruments... I'm looking for instruments that have vocal… — Marie Daulne
• Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass… — Alexander Herzen
• This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death,… — Margaret Visser
• The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself. — Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past… — Gary Becker
• Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, justas our body will pass into… — Alexander Herzen

Who Wrote These Modern Western Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 14 Modern Western Quotes as follows:

• 2 Modern Western Quotes by Margaret Visser
• 2 Modern Western Quotes by Fatema Mernissi
• 2 Modern Western Quotes by Alexander Herzen
• 1 Modern Western Quote by Tadao Ando
• 1 Modern Western Quote by Ajahn Brahm
• 1 Modern Western Quote by Stephen Baxter
• 1 Modern Western Quote by Arnold J. Toynbee
• 1 Modern Western Quote by Shulamith Firestone
• 1 Modern Western Quote by Marie Daulne
• 1 Modern Western Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1 Modern Western Quote by Gary Becker