The West Quotes

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology of liberalism is an absolute evil.

We are going to win and the industrial West is going to lose out; there's not much you can do about it because the reasons for your failure are within yourselves.

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.

JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.

I am not anti-west, I am PRO PAKISTAN

Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing compared to what I'd like to see done to these people

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

Some goin' east; and-a some goin' west, Some stand aside to try their best. Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small. They just can't even find no food at all.

North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.

I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

The West is anything but altruistic.

When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday morning?

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

Some in the West suggest that Isam needs a separation of mosque and state. However, in the case of Iran at least what is needed is a separation lof religion and business.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World

The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world

You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening.

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

There was the gaudy patch of sunflowers beside the west gate of the palace of the Prince of Ombria, that did nothing all day long but turn their golden-haired, thousand-eyed faces to follow the sun.

Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.

I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.

Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here.

I would rather die going to the west than live by staying in the east.

The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.

I really wanna work with Kanye West. He's one of the few people I haven't got to work with yet that I really wanted to.

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

The West is not in the West. It is a project, not a place.

[I like in Kanye West] confidence in him, but also his aggressiveness, ambition and charisma.

Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem

My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.