Western Quotes

1229 Western quotes by 890 unique authors

It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average… — Niall Ferguson
I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part… — Chen-Ning Yang
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a… — Chen-Ning Yang
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've never experienced the… — Norman Borlaug
Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. — James Burnham
Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying around overhead. I… — Charles Lindbergh
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved… — Victor Davis Hanson
Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower. — John Kenneth Galbraith
For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy. — Azar Nafisi
In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and… — Azar Nafisi
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational… — Julius Evola
The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. .… — Langdon Winner
Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene. All immigrants bring exotic… — Daniel Pipes
I say we must have a movement that brings those troops home and launch a crusade to transform our school buildings, we launch a crusade… — Unknown Author
I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me… — Sergio Leone
When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George… — Andrew Roberts
I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress for… — Jerry Stahl
There will be a shifting of the poles. There will be upheavals in the Arctic and the Antarctic that will make fotr the eruption of… — Edgar Cayce
Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's vivid and high-velocity,… — T. Jefferson Parker
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about… — T Bone Burnett
The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer. — Shulamith Firestone
I love bowl games. I really do. I like it more than the kids do. I grew up a poor kid in western Pennsylvania, and… — Barry Alvarez
When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would have… — Samuel Fuller
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by… — Carroll Quigley
The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died. — Adrian Goldsworthy

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