Western Culture Quotes
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Western Culture Quotes & Sayings
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In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment.
— Shirin Neshat
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
— Orhan Pamuk
It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.
— Christopher Dawson
Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.
— Camille Paglia
The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.
— Leland Ryken
I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.
— A.R. Rahman
I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.
— Malala Yousafzai
Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.
— Margaret Visser
Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture
— Fons Trompenaars
Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.
— Ibn Warraq
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
— Ayn Rand
When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
— Park Chan-wook
It is not for us ... to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.
— Carl Jung
Western culture has allowed for the open admiration of beauty because it is a human value and a pleasure, rather than some perilous evil.
— Olivia Pierson
Unless the relationship of law to Christianity is re-established, there is no future except destruction for Western culture.
— R. J. Rushdooney
The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.
— Chen-Ning Yang
Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.
— Ibn Warraq
Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
— Natan Sharansky
Put plainer, my sense is that western culture would be a damn sight poorer today if John Lennon had been forced to carry a goddamn BlackBerry.
— Merlin Mann
In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts ... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
— Jessica Alba
In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.
— Eliza Griswold
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
— Stephen Gardiner
Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.
— Frederik L. Schodt
I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman ... come in the guise of a comic ... to heal perception by using ... 'jokes' ...
— Bill Hicks
Really feeling your body move and the life inside of yourself is critical. Western culture is astoundingly disembodied and uniquely so.
— Krista Tippett
The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.
— Shulamith Firestone
There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.
— James Cromwell
I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.
— Joel Salatin
We were made to live slower than our fast-paced Western culture deems normal. But it means paddling upstream through strong currents.
— Tsh Oxenreider
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
— Tadao Ando
I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.
— Gavin McInnes
I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.
— Ibn Warraq
The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society.
— Larry Herzberg
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.
— America Ferrera