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“Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.”

Film Used Subjects Havens Civilization Shapes Western Western Civilization

Author:Eric Rohmer

“I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.”

Thinking Kind Matter Humanity Quality Subjects Instinct Western Following Guts Subject Matter

Author:Anson Mount

“A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.”

Subjects Western Haunting Academia Spectre

Book:The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology

Source: The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology

“Whatever helps you sleep is my opinion on the subject, and that's what I like about the western world's most popular religion, it has helped put so many people to sleep, although most of them permanently and without their approval.”

People World Helping Sleep Opinion Subjects Western Approval Western World

Book:Roseanne: my life as a woman

Source: Roseanne: my life as a woman

“[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.”

Thinking Self Country Subjects Europe Tradition Complexes Western Deeper Treated Revelations Popular Music Self Revelation Western Music Country Western Country Western Music

Author:Leonard Cohen

“The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.”

Ifs Reason Form Literature Interest Special Subjects Students Ought Western Special Interests Finnish

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.”

Stills Facts Culture Realizing Subjects Happenings Western Dimensions Denied Taboo Western Culture

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance on the rule of law clearly played a major role in transforming Western society from a world in which the ordinary citizen was literally subject to the arbitrary will of his master to a world in which the ordinary citizen could regard himself as his own master”

Source: There's no such thing as a free lunch

“Beaumont specifically pointed out that the cultural elements and idioms regarded as "Egyptian" could not have originated in the land of the Nile. This single fact is inviolate and cannot be denied. It is obvious to those who have taken the time to study the subject, that the Egyptian civilization was transplanted by Western adepts and elders.”

Facts Study Taken Land Subjects Civilization Elements Western Obvious Denied Elders Egyptian Idiom Nile Egyptian Civilization

Author:Michael Tsarion

“Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe because in the long run stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty. ... The global wave of democracy has barely reached the Arab states. For too long, many people in that region have been victims and subjects. They deserve to be active citizens.”