Quotes of: Western-culture Keyword

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.

Peter L. Berger

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

Michael R. LeGault

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Saul Bellow

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

Steve Ballmer

Street culture is a culture of containment. Most young people do not realize that it all too often leads to a “dead end”. “Street culture,” as I am using the term, is a counterforce to movement culture. Street culture in contemporary urban re...

Haki R. Madhubuti

Culture is always on the move.

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

Sherman Alexie

The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.

Vladimir Putin

If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities and amenities of everyday life... The rift is... between "folk" culture, where the unschooled can be wise, and print culture, which enslaved t...

Culture and History

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Naomi Wolf

American music culture is black culture.

Yelawolf

Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a Latin imitation of an old French expansion of a Latin epitome of a Greek romance. (p. 55)

The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature

Put me down.” “Nope.” He held her snuggled to his bare chest, tipping her up so he could rub his cheek against hers. “I like carrying you.

Doms of Dark Haven 2: Western Nights

True lovers may never know what love means. A man may love a woman out of his reach. She does not know he loves her, and he will never speak of it.

Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.

A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Cradle of Western Civilization

When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous wor...

Caroline Lawrence

Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each othe...

Daniel Pipes

Albert Kropp: [speaking of school] They never taught us really useful like how to light a cigarette in the wind, or make a fire out of wet wood, or bayonet a man in the belly instead of the ribs where it gets jammed.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Hair-peak soldier: And manufacturers. They get rich. [murmurs of agreement] Albert Kropp: I think it's more a kind of fever. Nobody wants it in particular, and then all at once, there it is. We didn't want it. The English didn't want it. And here we ...

All Quiet on the Western Front