Western Quotes

Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.

The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.

Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith.

Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.

But I never worked with a northern horse before. They are very different from western horses.

Western clothes are our everyday wardrobe. But I do not think that it makes much of a difference anymore whether you are Japanese or American or European.

The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.

I've always wanted to do a Western.

I have a lot of problems with Western European easel painting.

In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.

Your Western ideas about love are ridiculous. A woman is put on earth to please a man and a man should have many women, and a woman should only have one man.

Of course, western is my native music.

Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range . . . come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River . . .

One of the things I would love to do is Axe Cop, which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in Axe Cop someday. I would also love to be in a Western.

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection."

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been.

We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as the lie.

My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.

I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World.

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

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

If some Western politician claims he is in a position to use the normal Western methods to feed and clothe 1.2 billion Chinese, we would be happily prepared to elect him president of China.

All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.

Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.

Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.

If we look at the complexity of the challenges facing western societies today, we see that the problems are not really about outsiders, but have their roots much closer to home.

Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And that’s where we are now.

Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

You want a leader, Western leader, English-speaking? Mitt Romney.

If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.

We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world. Come on. We can do better than this.

The Western world, and the UK in particular, is drowning in a sea of its own blubber.

Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class.

In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

The Arab and Islamic countries suffer from severe backwardness, and the Western world wants to make them even more backward.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Political stability was at most a factor in assessing developing countries or Russia. It is now also an issue in Western democracies.

I'm completely fascinated with American politics because I think they dictate the politics of every nation of the Western world. So, it's very interesting to follow what's going on over here.

It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

The capacity to transfer production elsewhere is a weapon against the Western workers.

Western conception of history has had great consequences over the last two hundred years. You see it in the invasion of Iraq. You see it in almost everything that is said and done.