Western Quotes · Page 25

Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.

— Art Alexakis

I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today.

— Irina Tweedie

We do not have to be trapped in the simple-minded binaries of the western world.

— Barkha Dutt

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

— Helen Fisher

“There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations.”

— Steven Magee

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a…

— Whittaker Chambers

Fairly or not, Western consumers associate Chinese products primarily with 'low price.'

— Nirmalya Kumar

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.

— Chiang Kai-shek

On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that…

— Arthur Demarest

When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my…

— Kacey Musgraves

Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when…

— Wafa Sultan

Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the…

— Camille Paglia

Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of…

— Whitney Chadwick

So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regenerate their own stagnant society, they destroy…

— Muhammad Asad

You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian…

— Stephen Harper

I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that…

— Quentin Tarantino

The U.S. is telling the Northern Alliance to kill Taliban prisoners. It's totally a breach of all the known conventions of war.…

— Tariq Ali

In Western Europe, most countries have variations of the lifetime pension system for most workers so they are keeping the system that…

— Hedrick Smith

Good-bye, my moonsong and my breath, my white nights and golden days, my fresh water and my fire. Good-bye, and may you…

— Paullina Simons

[Australian Reserve Bank] Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triumph…

— Paul Keating

I remember the first film I reviewed for the Daily was a John Ford Western. I think it was My Darling Clementine,…

— Roger Corman

People always say, "What do you want to do next, what kind of movie do you want to do next?" And I…

— Christian Bale

Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role…

— Steven Pinker

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

— Elaine Pagels

We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

— Michael Monroe

I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100…

— Deborah King

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

— Nancy Pearcey

Western Tibetan Buddhists are always looking out there at the distant snow peaks and they lose the flowers along the path.

— Tenzin Palmo

Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.

— Al Franken

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of…

— Walter Lippmann

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

— Franco Nero

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

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

— James Cromwell

Now, the other pillar of Israeli power - Western support and complicity - is starting to crack. We must do all we…

— Ali Abunimah

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

Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.

— Melvin Van Peebles

Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait.

— Clint Eastwood

The Western world, and the UK in particular, is drowning in a sea of its own blubber.

— Michael Simkins

That's something that I'm trying to do in my work, to send a message to western people. They're the ones who are…

— Marina Abramovic

The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is…

— Abu Bakar Bashir