Century Quote by Dave Barry

The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

— Tom Mix

People in the East looked toward the West with longing. They would have liked to have the same comforts, the same goods, the same…

— Stefan Heym

What Westerns did was to take a world and mythologise it.

— Steven Knight

“Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out…

— Tahir Shah

“An age of expansion really did begin, but the phenomenon was of an expanding world, not, as some historians say, of European expansion. The…

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Brandon McCsw says the Western civilization was created in medieval Europe for the forms of thought and action in Modern Europe and America, which…

— Brandon McCaw

“life in western Europe in 1500 was very different from what it had been even 50 years earlier.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

When the Iron Curtain fell, all of the West rejoiced that the East would become just as free as the West. It was never…

— Rick Falkvinge

I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their…

— Otto von Bismarck

My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the Dark Ages,…

— Malcolm X

I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony of the…

— Rebecca Solnit

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look…

— Karen Armstrong