Western Quotes · Page 23

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

— David Berlinski

My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.

— Kola Boof

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about…

— Anonymous

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

— Camille Paglia

An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.

— Milton Berle

See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

— Alexander Pope

There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.

— Ludwig von Mises

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

— Aldrich Ames

For a really relaxing time, you want to go to a place where the work ethic hasn't taken hold, where the culture…

— Tom Hodgkinson

“Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins…

— Michael Monroe

Our Government is committed to supporting Canadian businesses as they grow, innovate and generate high-value jobs - in the West and across…

— Michelle Rempel

“one day you stepped in snow, the next in mud, water soaked in your boots and froze them at night, it was…

— E.L. Doctorow

So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to…

— Daniel Pipes

The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings…

— Dick Cheney

In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience.…

— Frederick Lenz

We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western…

— John Lahr

The Western music tradition is mostly addressed to a public that has a critical mind, and judges the quality of the writing,…

— Gaspar Claus

It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know…

— Joan D. Chittister

The communists basically acted as the police force of the security system of the [Spain] Republic and were very much opposed to…

— Noam Chomsky

Plenty of people within the Moslem world are not engaged in a clash with te West and don't want to do so;…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

There are many feminists who work in the media, and they think that feminism is very important. It is in their own…

— Doris Lessing

If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how…

— Evan Sayet

Liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today, these two concepts have failed. Those…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

To the glistening Eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy, the Valiant. To the great Western Wood, King Edmund the Just. To…

— C. S. Lewis

Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well.

— Bob Hawke

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very…

— Charles Kimbrough

I use the old Strathmore vellum surface paper, which is the best paper you can get in the Western world for ink…

— Robert Crumb

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

— Jacques Delors

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the…

— Tenzin Palmo

Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.

— Camille Paglia

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.

— Pete Hegseth

To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English…

— Liu Dan

“Jerking her blindfold back into place, he yelled, “Giddy-up!”                                      “They only say that in cartoons, you moron.”

— Cricket Rohman

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

— Brandi Carlile

The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.

— Adrian Goldsworthy

You'll find a way. You'll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can't, you'll have friends who will.

— Michael Monroe

The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

— Howard Rheingold

One of my favorite road trips of all time was here, in Australia, in Western Oz.

— Garrett McNamara

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic…

— Alan Brien

Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about…

— Simon Callow