Western Quotes

1229 Western quotes by 890 unique authors

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up… — Whittaker Chambers
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims… — Whittaker Chambers
The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God. — Whittaker Chambers
Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids has grown up… — Paul van Dyk
Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill Wittliff's photographs, we… — Stephen Harrigan
I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only become… — Muhammad Asad
Many people in Western culture are striving for success. They want the home, they want the great business. They want all of these outer things.… — Marci Shimoff
Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for… — Helena
Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn… — Mark E. Hyman
For the last one hundred and fifty years, the history of the House of Rothschild has been to an amazing degree the backstage history of… — Frederic Morton
There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have… — Peter Greenaway
This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of… — Julian Simon
The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that it’s not what’s in your pack that separates the quick from… — Laurence Gonzales
The divides are not Islam and western society, the divide is between people who have different values. We must promote connections between people who want… — Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the tough little wine-dark… — Laurie Lee
The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death… — Camille Paglia
The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when... When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job. When… — Marshall Goldsmith
Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as a… — Michel Foucault
The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss… — Warren Adler
The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark Ages when no… — Victor Davis Hanson
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness.… — Carl Jung
The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should… — Toni Morrison
It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know God the birthing… — Joan D. Chittister
I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences. — Zhang Yimou
I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed — Margaret J. Wheatley

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