Quotes of: Western-culture Keyword

I have been impressed by the realization that a few men have virtually 'decided' what experiences count and even exist in the world. The language of Western science--the reigning construct of male hegemony--precludes the ability to express the experi...

Karen Davis

Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is dif...

Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi

the bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face. . . . What they abominate about ‘the West,’ to put it in a phrase, is not what Western liberals don’t like and can’t defend about their own system, but what they do like about i...

Christopher Hitchens

He didn't know what he was anymore – not truly Chinese, for he had spent too long in the West, adopted too many Western ideas, but neither did he feel truly Westernised. There had been times when he had thought himself so, but a glimpse at his refl...

Dominique Wilson

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures

When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil?

Culture and History

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Culture, Behavior, Beauty, Books, Art, Eloquence, Power, Wealth, Illusions

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

Culture and Value

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

Culture and Value

I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.

Culture and Value

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

Culture and Value

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.

Dead Men Don't Answer

Gift giving is part of the culture no matter where you are and no matter how long you stay.

Doing Business with Japanese Men: A Woman's Handbook

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

Dharma Punx: A Memoir

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

Cultures reflect the interactions of mixed populations.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

The Beauty Myth

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

Breathless

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to...

Alanis Morissette

I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'

Brad Pitt

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

David Puttnam