Western Quotes

Hamlet, Kierkegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.

If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation.

If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.

When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.

I'm not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process and I want to continue my work.

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do.

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.

The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.

Come with me to the Winged Isle- Northern father's Western child Where the Dance of Ages is playing still through far marches of Acres Wild.

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values.

Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.

A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell

O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas.

The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.

You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing.

The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.

[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing principle the destruction of Western civilization.

The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced

To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.

Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four.

To work with Kaz on this kind of project is a fascinating process...He seems to be Dogen himself when offering the translations that we Western collaborators then refine with him.

Katie Lane is a wonderful new voice in Western romance fiction.

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

I loved Western Swing and Hank Williams' music, and I now know that it's a 6th tuning that gives you all of those classic licks.

By the way, if I have my own cult of personality with my own geodetic dome in western Massachusetts, I will have a hurt yurt for anyone who crosses me.

There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers. It doesn't work. It needs to break up into three parts.

Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

I never really did a western western.

You may have noticed that Senator Obama’s supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania lately. And you know, I couldn’t agree with them more.

In fact, in 1724 the Western world learned that women were co-creators of life that's when it was discovered that women had an egg cell.

What happened in the Western world was that Plato ceased to be the way people thought. Aristotle was rediscovered, and the modern, educated world moved toward Aristotelian thinking.

The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East

People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.