West Quotes

1578 West quotes by 1160 unique authors

Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West. — Huston Smith
It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed… — Mencius
The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer… — Gore Vidal
Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to… — Andre Malraux
The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short. — Rajneesh
Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have… — Rajneesh
A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria,… — S. J. Perelman
It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of… — Jacques Barzun
Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West. — Henry A. Kissinger
Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in size,… — Bruce Catton
To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at… — Simone Weil
In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship… — Lin Yutang
My high school was nothing like West Beverly High, let me tell you. I grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio. — Luke Perry
If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there… — Calvin Trillin
In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing. — Duane Michals
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the… — John Lahr
I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West! — Jonathan Raban
British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization. — Muhammad Iqbal
When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in… — Jenny Lawson
Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a… — Alexei Navalny
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending… — Azar Nafisi
We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy,… — Nursultan Nazarbayev
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed… — Taslima Nasrin
The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries… — Taslima Nasrin
The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic. — Kenzaburo Oe

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