West Quotes

1578 West quotes by 1160 unique authors

The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory… — Philip Gourevitch
Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should be… — Paramahansa Yogananda
To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the… — Michel Houellebecq
The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death! — Diana Vreeland
Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer… — Ibn Khaldun
The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there ever witnessed such… — Andrew Jackson
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than… — Gene Tunney
Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago. — Silvio Berlusconi
You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought… — Samuel Fuller
By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West — Carroll Quigley
Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I… — Clyde Edgerton
All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West. — James Norman Hall
The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on what North Koreans… — Andrei Lankov
American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically… — Robert Kuttner
Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down. The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to… — John Austin Baker
In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south,… — Kit Williams
The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim… — Bernard d'Espagnat
Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking… — Harvey Korman
Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of… — Ahmed Ben Bella
We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world. — Silvia Cartwright
While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the… — Roland Gift
If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred. — Ralph Peters
I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated… — Richard Foreman

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