People Quote by Robert Fuller

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were…

— Samuel P. Huntington

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying…

— Samuel P. Huntington

We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.

— Moe Howard

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other religions were…

— Oliver Stone

Westerns aren't about the gunfight, even though it has to be there at one point. It's not what they're about, at least the good…

— Kevin Costner

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

— Leonard Cohen

“It may seem from a cursory look at the news that the streets are a battleground, a deadly arena of fists, guns and knives.…

— Martin Dougherty

The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

— Howard Hawks

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the good guys…

— Harry Dean Stanton

“The guns seemed to address this country, which invented the streets that secured them with despotic police, in its primary language—violence.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

— Ray Stevenson