#stern

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

#command #course #distinguished #his #history

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#carried #culture #dirt #drive #extreme

Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#eastern #orthodox #russia

I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood. ↗

— Alexander Walker

#both #cinema #cinemas #course #disillusioned

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good. ↗

— Bill Walton

#bob #dylan #good #had #hemisphere

I never dreamed I would do Westerns. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#i #never #westerns #would

Out of the ashes of Sara Whitehead rose Melissa Stern. Out of the ashes of Mary Beth Whitehead, there were pieces lost. ↗

— Mary Beth Whitehead

#lost #mary #melissa #out #pieces

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one. ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

#get #i #lot #say #seen

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#age #ageing #anxiety #communicates #culture

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#concept #delinquent #god #mythology #senile