Western Quotes - Page 2

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture

Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.

The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it. They also understand that this is not a favor or a concession, but simply their natural right to be recognized as belonging to a culture that is distinct from the Western culture, a culture in which they have to live their own faith.

You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.

In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.

Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.

The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.

Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.