Western Man Quotes

17 quotes by 17 authors

• Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race. — John Oliver Killens
• If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western… — Muhammad Asad
• If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light,… — Ram Dass
• The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man. — Robinson Jeffers
• The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles. — Phil Ochs
• 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
• 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
• By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact,… — Fatema Mernissi
• No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done during… — Christopher Dawson
• It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns. It was just… — John le Carre
• I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The… — Stephen Colbert
• Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols… — Rene Dubos
• What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his… — Arthur Erickson
• Western man is schizophrenic. — J. B. Priestley
• The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the… — William S. Burroughs
• Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made… — Lester B. Pearson
• Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. — Kenneth Clark

Who Wrote These Western Man Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 17 Western Man Quotes as follows:

• 1 Western Man Quote by John le Carre
• 1 Western Man Quote by Stephen Colbert
• 1 Western Man Quote by Rene Dubos
• 1 Western Man Quote by Arthur Erickson
• 1 Western Man Quote by J. B. Priestley
• 1 Western Man Quote by William S. Burroughs
• 1 Western Man Quote by Lester B. Pearson
• 1 Western Man Quote by Kenneth Clark
• 1 Western Man Quote by John Oliver Killens
• 1 Western Man Quote by Muhammad Asad
• 1 Western Man Quote by Ram Dass
• 1 Western Man Quote by Robinson Jeffers
• 1 Western Man Quote by Phil Ochs
• 1 Western Man Quote by Alexander Lowen
• 1 Western Man Quote by George Steiner
• 1 Western Man Quote by Fatema Mernissi
• 1 Western Man Quote by Christopher Dawson