Western Quotes

1229 Western quotes by 890 unique authors

What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal cherished in western… — Boyd Rice
The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to… — Molly Haskell
The positive nature of some child-adult sexual relationships is not confined to non-Western cultures. Several of my friends - gay and straight, male and female… — Peter Tatchell
Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture. — Margaret Visser
Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human… — Mohammed Arkoun
For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good. — Anatoly Chubais
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
The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries. — Silvia Cartwright
I don't believe in Western morality, i.e., don't kill civilians or children, don't destroy holy sites, don't fight during the holiday seasons, don't bomb cemeteries,… — Manis Friedman
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization. — Richard Foreman
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
In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things… — Emir Kusturica
The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world. — David Berlinski
Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions. — Eamonn Coghlan
The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles. — Phil Ochs
I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross,… — Samuel Fuller
The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with… — Alexander Lowen
If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must… — Harry Seidler
But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards… — Omar Bongo
Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa. — George Ayittey
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement. — Peter Agre
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. — Aldrich Ames
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was… — Aldrich Ames
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity. — Pete Hegseth
The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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