Western Quotes

I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action.

The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.

He loves deep... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.

The world will be changed by western women.

In the western world today everyone is a democrat.

Especially for this film [ 47 ronin] there's a nice mixture between western and eastern. So Ronin wearing the boots, like Western style. It's a nice mixture.

Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

If you want to bring the people of this world together, you have to be willing to engage with countries that do not share our [western] democratic values.

It's been my dream to be in a Western, and to be able to wear the clothes, have a big gun, wear a big hat, have a big horse, and be a take-no-prisoners lady in the Civil War era.

'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue.

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity...

Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.

Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

There's a sort of absurdity to Australia and the so-called New World nations. I sensed it all the time growing up in Western Australia, which is really remote.

In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools from elementary through graduate.

Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.

The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

I was terrified, terrified in Songwriter, because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.

The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.

A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition.

The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world.

Everyone has a first love and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.

Psychosis is a very Western phenomena.

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for other cultures.

I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I can, and then go to Western cultures to give. I'm doing this bridging all the time.

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.

Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.

The East European small countries have a sense of betrayal, of having been forgotten by Western leaders.

I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty.

I'm not a big fan of western movies and I really don't like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them.