Western World Quotes
105 quotes by 92 authors
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A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes…
— Tommy Franks
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New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction…
— H. L. Mencken
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Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion.…
— Whitley Strieber
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I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think that in the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse…
— David Berlinski
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The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years…
— Tommy Franks
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In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color…
— Jeremiah Wright
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One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things…
— Francis Crick
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Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation…
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world.
— Judith Stacey
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Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction…
— Walter Lippmann
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England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their…
— Colin MacInnes
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area…
— Thomas Sowell
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Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led…
— Mark Steyn
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American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the…
— Christopher Dawson
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Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the…
— Margaret Thatcher
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All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a…
— C. Everett Koop
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We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from…
— Ornette Coleman
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The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.
— Azim Premji
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In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things…
— Emir Kusturica
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