Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive… — Joel McCrea Copy Share Image
Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and… — John Moody Copy Share Image
Speaking of childhood fantasy, we were doing a Western, but we were also just hanging out. You work, and you ride and… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
With one hand, you're selling the country out to Western multinationals. And with the other, you want to defend your borders with… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Darwinian evolution may be the most truthful and powerful idea ever generated by Western Science, but if we continue to illustrate our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I don't believe in Western morality, i.e., don't kill civilians or children, don't destroy holy sites, don't fight during the holiday seasons,… — Manis Friedman Copy Share Image
We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
My point is, as civilization is progressing, Mosaic law came down from the mountain, was handed to civilization, it emerged through the… — Steve King Copy Share Image
the present Western civilization ... is dominated by the extravert viewpoint. There are plenty of reasons for this domination: extraverts are more… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The Russians are using the tools at their disposal to weaken Western solidarity, to create doubt, to support nationalist parties, just as… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc.… — Dick Ebersol Copy Share Image
So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regenerate their own stagnant society, they destroy… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when… — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Tens of millions of Russian people died, fighting all sorts of Western expansionism. They defeated Nazism. They helped to liberate much of… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Australia - not western in geography, of course, but in every other respect for sure (it certainly doesn't want to be regarded… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Soul loss is regarded as the most serious diagnosis and the single greatest cause of premature death or serious illness by the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogged down so much with all… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Western conception of history has had great consequences over the last two hundred years. You see it in the invasion of Iraq.… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about… — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the well-developed world - Australia, Western Europe - they develop their resources base, they inventory it, they develop it, and… — John S. Watson Copy Share Image
