Western Quotes

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty.

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for other cultures.

I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I can, and then go to Western cultures to give. I'm doing this bridging all the time.

Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

Color is one way the eye and the brain work together to define the external world. However, not all cultures see color in the same way, nor do they give it as much importance as in western culture.

I love the whole futuristic landscape of dark, rainy neon, the mix of Eastern and Western cultures and the beautiful shots of the flying cars.

The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.

The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion.

Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.

Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.

The East European small countries have a sense of betrayal, of having been forgotten by Western leaders.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

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 form of gadgets.

In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

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 the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.

I realize that I've had a very idyllic vision of what spirituality looks like. Honestly, most of Western culture has an idyllic and simplified idea of what enlightenment entails.

Now, the other pillar of Israeli power - Western support and complicity - is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.

Muslims want the western countries to apologize. Why? because this gives them a sense of empowerment. It makes them feel good about themselves, it stokes their ego.

The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.

On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.

Id like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.

Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.

I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.

Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment.

I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, "If you've got a message, use Western Union."

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.