Western Quotes · Page 16

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

— Sam Peckinpah

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

— Victor Davis Hanson

I think all groups who don't fit in clearly with Western music have to think, 'How can I expand my market? Where…

— Kiran Ahluwalia

It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.

— Pearl White

When we did the Smoking Gunns, we were decked head to toe with every single Western thing you could imagine.

— Billy Gunn

I'm one of the people who believe the great lines come from either Western or bluegrass music.

— Warren Hellman

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz…

— Willie Nelson

The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land.

— Andrew Napolitano

I think readers nowadays are happy to have genres blurred. We're seeing that on screen too: The Pirates of the Caribbean mashes…

— Colette Freedman

My writer and I sat down and wrote a huge list of names of women to consider. It was really important to…

— Anita Sarkeesian

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature…

— George Saintsbury

All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those…

— C. Everett Koop

'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with…

— Brendan Fletcher

I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school,…

— Anonymous

Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust…

— B. Wayne Hughes

[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing…

— Jeb Bush

I think that Vladimir Putin has decided, in a very strategic way, to turn the tables and do everything in his power…

— Robert M. Gates

Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV…

— Margaret Thatcher

Evangelicals have like millions of rules. And it's just, uh, we have sort of an accepted, rationalism within which we frame religion.…

— William P. Young

One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us…

— Philip Sherrard

You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up…

— Malcolm X

Russia is now recognized as the center of the global 'mutiny' against global dictatorship of the US and EU. Its generally peaceful…

— Andre Vltchek

Today, practically every country outside the West is undergoing an intellectual, political, and cultural churning, from China to Bolivia, Egypt to Indonesia,…

— Pankaj Mishra

Every time someone does a Western movie, people flock to it. It's like, we're continually programming to people who are least likely…

— Edward Allen Bernero

John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

— Bill Walton

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

— David Bowie

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of…

— John le Carre

I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the…

— Reba McEntire

The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon…

— Stephen Kinzer

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

— Stephen Gardiner

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

— Jordan Peterson

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

— Marilyn French

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded…

— Aharon Appelfeld

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.

— Anne Enright

The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

— Silvia Cartwright

Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a…

— Damon Albarn

Islamophobia emerged from the Western countries, and this is a challenge that we all together need to surmount.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“Evie," he whispered next to her ear, "I want to make love to you, hold you in my arms, until the moon…

— Caroline Fyffe

The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.

— Whittaker Chambers

The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.

— Allen Ginsberg