Quotes of: Western-culture Keyword

New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth.

The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth

And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

Many years ago, I left my home country very narrow minded. Today I return with an educated mind, able to understand why my culture is as it is and still be very proud of it.

I Am Tausi

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

Jesus-Shock

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

The Round House

No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.

remembered rapture: the writer at work

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance

Whoa, I'm your girlfriend now?" Archer shrugged. "We've tried to kill each other, fought ghouls, and kissed a lot. I'm pretty sure we're married in some cultures.

Spell Bound

Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of violence.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The very matrix of our ability to love and bond in later life, maternal sensitivity – or lack thereof – also determines cultural tenor.

Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution

We deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.

Memenomics: The Next Generation Economic System

The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.

The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg

if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

It is my joy to share with present and future generations these stories so full of humor, warmth, and adventure – and so rich in the rural culture of the early 1900's.

The Little Alvernon Stories: Volume 2

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.

My Life: A Spoken Autobiography