Western Quotes

1229 Western quotes by 890 unique authors

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence. — Walter Lippmann
When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president… — Gore Vidal
It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States and the western… — Aviva Chomsky
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as… — Germaine Greer
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring… — John Howe
But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming… — William H. Seward
The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known. — Ruth Benedict
A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt,… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. — Florence King
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were… — John Lahr
In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate has at all… — Gunnar Myrdal
One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We… — Jonathan Raban
I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill… — Jonathan Raban
Planned parenthood" in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples attitudes which, on… — Gunnar Myrdal
No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the… — Barbara Tuchman
The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan?… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me. — Franco Nero
The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries… — Taslima Nasrin
In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the… — George Andrew Olah
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and… — Cat Power
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom. — Nancy Pearcey
Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies. — Nancy Pearcey

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