Western Quotes

1229 Western quotes by 890 unique authors

We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return… — Joan Halifax
Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance… — Arthur C. Clarke
Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self… — Erich Fromm
In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s… — Erich Fromm
A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool… — Joan Didion
The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of the German working… — Karl Marx
The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries… — Sappho
The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man. — Robinson Jeffers
I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at… — John le Carre
Gay people are born into, and belong to, every society in the world. They are all ages, all races, all faiths. They are doctors and… — Hillary Clinton
I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or aliens and starships,… — George R. R. Martin
In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color… — Jeremiah Wright
Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human. — Malala Yousafzai
In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't… — Malala Yousafzai
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended, — Alan Furst
On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered. — Amos Oz
One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things… — Francis Crick
All the intelligence services of America and Europe know full well that the disastrous attack ( of 9/11 ) has been planned and realized from… — Francesco Cossiga
There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as… — Desmond Tutu
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what… — Desmond Tutu
For us, the idea was not to get involved more than necessary in the fight against the Russians, which was the business of the Americans,… — Osama bin Laden
The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty, human rights, and… — Osama bin Laden
I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this… — Suzy Bogguss
What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of Creation versus scarcity… — Rebecca Adamson
The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years. — Joseph J. Romm

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