Western Quotes · Page 16

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

— John Lennon

Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing.

— Jay Ellis

The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.

— Andre Vltchek

The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western…

— Desmond Tutu

Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay…

— Henry Paulson

I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.

— Stephen Curry

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

— Anonymous

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

— Joseph Jarman

That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens.…

— Ezra Pound

You've gotta understand: in July of '44, the Allies were still contained on the peninsula in western France and the destruction of…

— Christopher McQuarrie

“It was one of those dreams from which she woke up depressed about her reality, filled with a longing that pulled at…

— Michael Monroe

...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare…

— Michael Pollan

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so…

— Dan Aykroyd

Now let me be clear; millions of women around the world nurse their children beautifully for years without giving anybody else a…

— Tina Fey

It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason…

— Otto Schily

This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more…

— Kate Bornstein

The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate…

— Corinne Heline

So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even…

— Derrick Jensen

A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Better known as the Secret of the Golden Flower, this is a famous neidan text that the Western world came to know…

— Monica Esposito

[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars…

— John Pilger

England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and…

— Karl Marx

The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment.

— Shirin Neshat

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

— F. Sionil Jose

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian…

— A. R. Rahman

American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will…

— Spike Lee

That's what I mean by "Western morality," is the lack of morality. There is none. People are out for themselves, and they'll…

— Cass McCombs

I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns…

— Quentin Tarantino

It is clear that the vehicle of the western was a very interesting vehicle for me to contraband some of my ideas.

— Sergio Leone

The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but…

— Roger Housden

I would love, one day before this is all over, to do a Western. That, and to play a priest.

— Dennis Farina

. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.

— Neil Postman

Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.

— Theodore L. Cuyler

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

— Daniel Woodrell

A lot of bands mature, which means they get square; they start delivering messages. Hey, you got a message, use Western Union.

— David Lee

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

— Arthur Erickson

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.

— Noam Chomsky

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

— John Burroughs