Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.
It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.
And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.
What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.
The four movies I can remember seeing as a kid were 'The Elephant Man,' 'The Magnificent Seven,' 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' and 'Mad Max!' Two of those are westerns. So the western genre is emblazoned on my memory from childhood, and those are ...
In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.
Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
Franz Kemmerich: [to Mueller] Why it's an honor to have those boots in your face. They're the best pair in the army.
[last lines] Second orderly: Your deal. Get his name and number? Medic Orderly: Yeah. Corporal Stanislaus Katczinsky, 306.
Katczinsky: [to Detering, Westhus, and Tjaden] I wish you three would get bumped off. I'm tired of feeding you for nothing.
In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.
He caught her staring and smiled-not a conceited I-work-out-and-have-a-great-body type smirk, but more of a I’m-a-boy; you’re-a-girl; life is good.
Use your safe word if you get scared, honey.” “I’m fine.” Her voice came out husky. “Yes, you are, aren’t you?
Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.
If Christianity is true, then every argument will, if pursued to the end, lead to Jesus.
For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men. They are so much more energetic and compromising than the big fellows.
... We had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
