Western Quotes · Page 14

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

— Erich Maria Remarque

It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.

— Tariq Ali

Western clothes are our everyday wardrobe. But I do not think that it makes much of a difference anymore whether you are…

— Junya Watanabe

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of…

— Pierre Schaeffer

“Western police officers are an arguably corrupt group of people that have rigged the system to make them almost untouchable.”

— Steven Magee

Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in…

— Audrey Meadows

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female

— Nicholas D. Kristof

As far as I know, there's nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn't care if he lives or dies.

— Michael Monroe

Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My…

— Shirin Neshat

The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens…

— Jean Cocteau

I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was…

— Otis Rush

What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by the conflict…

— Ed Kashi

There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all…

— Abu Bakar Bashir

Gone is any mention of American exceptionalism. I happen to believe that twice, three times in the 20th century, the United States…

— Mark Shields

Everytime someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated…

— Whitley Strieber

For seven years I wrote and published my texts on the Internet and no Arab festival invited me and no Arab publishing…

— Hassan Blasim

The idea that each individual has intrinsic, God-given value and is of infinite worth quite apart from any social contribution - an…

— Elaine Pagels

In opposing we always talk about freedom in the Western world, Muslims always talk about justice. Very often we mean the same…

— Bernard Lewis

Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the…

— Mark Steyn

I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these…

— Hamid Dabashi

Having said that, Angela Merkel's electoral district is here [ in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania].And so, if Chancellor Merkel loses here, her party, which…

— Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

“I confess [Election] is a hard doctrine, running contrary to our earthly ideas of fair play, but I can see no way…

— Charles Portis

The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It…

— Henry David Thoreau

If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so…

— Pope Francis

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

— Ibn Warraq

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and…

— Randy Alcorn

The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.

— Joseph J. Romm

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

— Stanley Marion Garn

We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe,…

— Jens Stoltenberg

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to…

— Tony Snow

His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned…

— Luigi Pulci

I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking…

— Gavin McInnes

I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or…

— Haley Bennett

I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise.

— Anonymous

Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.

— Eamonn Coghlan

You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things…

— Jonathan Richman

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

— Anonymous

My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is…

— Sally Field