Quotes of: Western-culture Keyword

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

Zhang Yimou

Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that is ... Western, and completely alien to us [the Chinese]. For centuries, since the time of the Opium Wars, we have s...

The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the latter, as Albert Murray pointed out, a mixture of the Yankee, the Indian, and the Negro (with a pinch of ethnic salt); there is youth culture and drug ...

Race Traitor

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

Andrew Sullivan

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

A History of Western Philosophy

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

The Practice of the Wild: Essays

Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.

Russell Means

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Arthur Erickson

Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it.

Rick Wakeman

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

Fareed Zakaria

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

John Millington Synge

Paul Bäumer: War isn't the way it looks back here.

All Quiet on the Western Front

No. No, I don’t want my hands restrained.” “Yes. You do.

Doms of Dark Haven 2: Western Nights

The burning off and the gathering together are one.

Singing The Snake: Poems From The Western Desert, 1979 1988

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.

Jerry Springer

Tjaden: Me and the Kaiser, we are both fighting. The only difference is the Kaiser isn't here!

All Quiet on the Western Front

...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformati...

The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty

The most interesting of the classic movie genres to me are the indigenous ones: the Western, which was born on the Frontier, the Gangster Film, which originated in the East Coast cities, and the Musical, which was spawned by Broadway. They remind me ...

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civiliz...

Bill Hicks

The German experience brings us face to face with the major problem of the revolution in Western Europe. In these countries, the old bourgeois mode of production and the centuries-old civilisation which has developed with it have completely impressed...

Anton Pannekoek