Western Quotes

1229 Western quotes by 890 unique authors

[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN] action is nonaction… — Martin Scorsese
In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such… — Timothy Keller
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon.… — George Steiner
A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell — J.R.R. Tolkien
I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write. So hard to… — Ellen Gilchrist
Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but when it comes… — Swami Vivekananda
The comic is today's western, so many movies, and I think that if actors want to optimize their longevity, it's important for them to meet… — Erin Gray
Right now were in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if… — Sandy Duncan
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in… — Buchi Emecheta
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention. — Garry Kasparov
The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows… — Peter Sloterdijk
Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass… — Alexander Herzen
..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as well as Western… — Ken Wilber
This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death,… — Margaret Visser
When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the other (the eastern… — Galileo Galilei
In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system’s failure to adequately provide a… — Robert Kiyosaki
I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture. — Joel Salatin
You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how… — Joel Salatin
I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World. — Larry Norman
A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed assistant scoutmaster whose… — Wallace Stegner
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or… — Camille Paglia
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous, you are hospitable,… — Desmond Tutu
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is… — Mordecai
I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today. — Irina Tweedie
I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining. — Vaclav Klaus

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