Western Quotes · Page 53

Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.

— Jacques Maritain

This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and…

— Hadley Freeman

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

— Ti West

The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.…

— Camille Paglia

Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality…

— Rick Bayan

I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical…

— Rebecca Solnit

The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be…

— Os Guinness

I refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I…

— Niall Ferguson

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

— Joseph J. Romm

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made,…

— Dennis Farina

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that.…

— Thom Yorke

I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern…

— Tony Judt

“The man in the middle was short and stocky, with swarthy skin and a black mustache that drooped almost to his chin.…

— Joe Millard

A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We…

— W. Edwards Deming

I really want to do a Western. I want to be the dude who is riding horses and doing exciting things -…

— Margot Robbie

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by…

— Arthur Henderson

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young,…

— Lauryn Hill

Conditions in Chinese factories are harsh. They're much harsher than they are in, for instance, the United States or any Western nation.

— Charles Duhigg

Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And…

— Marianne Williamson

After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual…

— Mark Steyn

Color is one way the eye and the brain work together to define the external world. However, not all cultures see color…

— Nita Leland

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western…

— Marshall McLuhan

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a…

— Alice Cooper

Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to…

— Erica Jong

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves…

— Ulrich Beck