Western Quotes
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.
There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them
Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.
Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.
Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.
Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.
Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.
Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.
I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today.
I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.
Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.
Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they're barbarians.
Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.
The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
Anything that is western origin, first you verify it, then accept it. Anything that is Indian origin, first accept it, then verify it if necessary.
If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness.
We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.
I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise.
I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.
In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.
Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.
The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion for me to realize it even more.
Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.
We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention
Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.
Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.
