Best 309 quotes in «western quotes» category

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.

Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.

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

I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise.

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery. Spirituals, rap music - that would be the space we'd find American landays in.

If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Europe, is not black and white. It's not a western movie.

Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.

I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On the contrary, I have tried to convince my fellow citizens by citing the examples of highly effective local self-government systems in Switzerland and New England, both of which I saw first-hand.

I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic.

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

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.

It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

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

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

I totally think we have a future on the planet. I just think that we have to get away from Western thinking, which is very much founded on dualisms.

It's a very broad and not very well-disguised effort of Russians to create questions about the legitimacy of these Western elections. And, I think, this is very K.G.B.

Of course, western is my native music.

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

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.

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

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.

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

No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.

On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that today I see most of the symptoms of societies on the brink of collapse, not just in the U.S., but in the tightly interconnected societies of Western civilization - now essentially world civilization.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

Psychosis is a very Western phenomena.

Putin discovered that when he invaded Ukraine, he expected the Ukrainians to rise up and join him and say, "Yes, we want to be part of Russia," and that didn't happen. And they've been paying, actually, I think quite a high price for it, both in the ongoing war in Ukraine - which is I think increasingly unpopular in Russia - and also in the Western sanctions, and in general, the separation from the West that was caused by that.

Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined.

Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.

Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture

Savagery was a word that Westerners used to, again, to consciously differentiate them from non-Westerners, to assert that superiority, that cultural superiority. It goes back to the British Empire, and again, you know, what was the purpose of the British Empire? To bring civilization to the savage no matter where they were, whether it was India or Asia or Australia or whatever. It's that civilizing mission that characterizes so much of the history of Western colonialism.

The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.

Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.