Quotes of: Western-culture Keyword

Politics is downstream from culture and not the other way around.

The Man in the Middle: An Inside Account of Faith and Politics in the George W. Bush Era

Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

Martin Eden

They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs.

The Mammoth Hunters

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

And so the very thing that should make Egypt strong - the richness and diversity of her culture - serves to divide her and make her weak.

The Map of Love

One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.

Misogynies

Many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I feared. Page 135

My Beloved World

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

Obedience to Authority

Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

It is possible to pray in such a way that one does not transcend the world, in such a way that the divine is degraded to a functional part of the workaday world... then it is no longer devotion to the divine, but an attempt to master it.

Leisure: The Basis Of Culture

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

Leisure: The Basis Of Culture

La culture, c'est un effort permanent de l'être pour échapper à sa vile condition de primate sous-civilisé.

The Library of Unrequited Love

It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.

The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code

Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

‘Foo Kyu’ is just a very unfortunate cultural coincidence." "Just think about his poor son, ‘Foo Kyu Two.’

The Plutonium Blonde

You lying liar," Vaan said, "who lies to me with lies. Nobody actually likes Shakespeare! They just pretend to sound more cultural and pretentious.

Pretty Shade of Grey

Gay male and lesbian culture is obsessed with purity of identity as the only basis for figuring out who you can trust or dance with. -Pat Califia

PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality

We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own.

Tuesdays with Morrie