Western Quotes

1229 Western quotes by 890 unique authors

Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in… — Harvey Cox
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for… — Brian Ferneyhough
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate,… — George Saintsbury
A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization. — John Milius
Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in… — James W. Loewen
When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or… — Mary MacLane
In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another… — Virchand Gandhi
The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide. — Herman E. Daly
The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory… — George Steiner
While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media. — Abu Bakar Bashir
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their… — Abu Bakar Bashir
Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western. — Lawrence Kasdan
Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture — Fons Trompenaars
British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For… — Conor Cruise O'Brien
Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his… — Ricky Skaggs
In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist… — Unknown Author
Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and… — Bobby Hull
Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization. It rests, however,… — Unknown Author
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to… — Florence King
We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races and all beliefs.… — William O. Douglas
Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had… — Unknown Author
Western governments ... will lose the war against dealers unless efforts are switched to prevention and therapy... All penalties for drug users should be dropped… — Unknown Author
That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it,… — Ezra Pound
Come with me to the Winged Isle- Northern father's Western child Where the Dance of Ages is playing still through far marches of Acres Wild. — Ian Anderson

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