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«What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
civilisation, good idea, idea, think of, very, Western, westerns, would-be
«If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.»
Author: Stanley Garn
| Keywords:
Aborigine, Aborigines, drafted, flunk, flunked, flunks, I.Q., IQ, IQ test, presumably, The Draft, Western, westerns
«Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.»
Author: Vine Deloria, Jr.
(Activist, Educator, Lawyer, Writer)
| Keywords:
connects, equivalent, link, unfortunately, Western, westerns
«Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.»
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
(Writer)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
detective, detective stories, detective story, science fiction, westerns
«Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
Babylon, flames, flow, hierarchies, hierarchy of, idols, imperial, mystic, mystics, pagan, pagans, popular, popular culture, temple, Temple of, theater, The Imperial, The Western, Western, westerns
«President Bush said it's now time for a change in Iraq and he wants them to have a Western-style democracy like ours. So right now in Iraq, the economy is collapsing, businessmen are corrupt, and Hussein wants his son to take over as president. Sounds like mission accomplished.»
«Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.»
«The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.»
Author: Marianne Williamson
(Author, Lecturer)
| Keywords:
collapse, contributing, crash, crisis, deciding, dollars, greed, healing, larger, our planet, selfishness, structure, The crash, The Crisis, the system, Western, westerns
«MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
English, indocile, mustang, nobleman, noblemen, plains, The American, The Western, Western, westerns
«Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people?s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human 'brain' with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human 'heart' with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Civilization,
Compassion,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
civilizations, day care, filling, great care, human brain, Human heart, importance, role, spread, These Days, Western, westerns, with compassion, with great care
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