Western Quotes

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

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

Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.

it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.

There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier.

I was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography.

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

An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

I want to tell them (western countries) just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out.

In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.

Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.

Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition.

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.

Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.

A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

That's something that I'm trying to do in my work, to send a message to western people. They're the ones who are completely disconnected.

The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be where they are.

Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.

We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.

If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.

You want a messenger boy, call Western Union.

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

The western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet

The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.

Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.

If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.

It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.