Western Quotes · Page 78

I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'

— Cate Blanchett

Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wide…

— Paul A. Baran

I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I…

— Marina Abramovic

In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any…

— Timothy Keller

The biblical writers assumed many things about reality that modern, Western people do not assume because we've been conditioned by our cultures…

— Roger E. Olson

Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning…

— Chuck Baldwin

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for…

— Benjamin Hoff

Now, if I could get Mark to put down his phone and stop taking breaks, we’d be able to finish up before…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

There is usually an 'X factor' that is hard to define. For HTC, I think it is our culture. We embrace the…

— Cher Wang

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

Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we…

— Geert Wilders

When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might…

— Haruki Murakami

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.

— Eliza Griswold

I always say the Syrian problem as isolated case, as Syrian case, is not very complicated. What makes it complicated is the…

— Bashar al-Assad

I believe Western culture -- rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. -- is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions…

— Mark Steyn

the present Western civilization ... is dominated by the extravert viewpoint. There are plenty of reasons for this domination: extraverts are more…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty,…

— Osama bin Laden

This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.

— Tilden Edwards

Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the…

— William Barrett

Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to…

— Nancy Pearcey

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or…

— Hu Shih

I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.

— Patrick Warburton

In my mind, there is no reason why Stoicism shouldn't become as popular as Buddhism, especially in the Western world, where the…

— Massimo Pigliucci

The Oriental approach to violence is a much more aesthetic and poetic approach, whereas in the western world, violence is put in…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar,…

— Bashar al-Assad