Western Quotes

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

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.

Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" is pretty clever.

There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.

Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

Tennessee is a very country-type state. Maybe I can practice on some type of country-western dance where they'll know what I'm doing.

Health is the fastest growing failing business in western civilization.

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

[...] evidence is now coming out showing that Egypt was colonized by Western people over 15,000 years ago.

Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!

I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.

I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.

My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.

Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids has grown up thinking trance is the shittiest music since country and western.

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed

Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living.

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me to be slowly dying, stuck in celebrity illness or stupidity.

Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.

Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.