Western Quotes · Page 27

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had…

— Noam Chomsky

It's very Western to idealize a kind of love that does not come with any expectations, that still permits both the giver…

— Jenny Zhang

'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar…

— Patrick deWitt

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

— John Bruton

You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not…

— Joseph Jarman

In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment.

— Shirin Neshat

American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will…

— Spike Lee

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

— F. Sionil Jose

I'm not sitting around saying, 'Man, I'd really love to direct a western.' That's just not something I'm probably going to do,…

— Josh Radnor

With one hand, you're selling the country out to Western multinationals. And with the other, you want to defend your borders with…

— Arundhati Roy

The Russians are using the tools at their disposal to weaken Western solidarity, to create doubt, to support nationalist parties, just as…

— Daniel Fried

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot…

— Thomas Sowell

The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and…

— John Moody

Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed…

— Martha Beck

Speaking of childhood fantasy, we were doing a Western, but we were also just hanging out. You work, and you ride and…

— James Badge Dale

Casually, unconsciously, but with deadly effectiveness, western man all round the globe destroyed the traditional gods and the ancient societies with his…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these…

— Hamid Dabashi

I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“I confess [Election] is a hard doctrine, running contrary to our earthly ideas of fair play, but I can see no way…

— Charles Portis

The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It…

— Henry David Thoreau

They [the Soviets] intend...to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to…

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

Having said that, Angela Merkel's electoral district is here [ in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania].And so, if Chancellor Merkel loses here, her party, which…

— Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

There are other concerns in this state [of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania], which is one of the prettiest. It's also one of the poorest,…

— Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian…

— A. R. Rahman

I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns…

— Quentin Tarantino

It is clear that the vehicle of the western was a very interesting vehicle for me to contraband some of my ideas.

— Sergio Leone

That's what I mean by "Western morality," is the lack of morality. There is none. People are out for themselves, and they'll…

— Cass McCombs

The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.

— Andre Vltchek

Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing.

— Jay Ellis

Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay…

— Henry Paulson

The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western…

— Desmond Tutu

I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.

— Stephen Curry

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

— Anonymous

A lot of bands mature, which means they get square; they start delivering messages. Hey, you got a message, use Western Union.

— David Lee

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

— Daniel Woodrell

Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.

— Theodore L. Cuyler

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

— Arthur Erickson

I would love, one day before this is all over, to do a Western. That, and to play a priest.

— Dennis Farina

The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but…

— Roger Housden