Western Quotes

1229 Western quotes by 890 unique authors

In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week. In… — John Pilger
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization. — Dinesh D'Souza
It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are… — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. — David Foster Wallace
I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields… — Kathy Acker
For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is… — Neal Stephenson
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility. — Stephen Baxter
Chiropractic works in harmony with the basic healing forces of the body, whereas the allopathic, western medical establishment doesn't have nearly as holistic a vision. — John Robbins
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. — Octavio Paz
Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of… — Edwin A. Locke
Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement,… — Robert Bork
The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world. — Unknown Author
Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction… — Walter Lippmann
England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their… — Colin MacInnes
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom… — Ludwig von Mises
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no… — Christopher Dawson
No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were… — Christopher Dawson
Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed… — Pat Buchanan
The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines. — Camille Paglia
The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again. — Camille Paglia
I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect that civilization. I… — P.J. O'Rourke
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available.… — P.J. O'Rourke
More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of… — Joseph Lelyveld
We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue. — Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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