Best 309 quotes in «western quotes» category

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

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.

Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture

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

Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.

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

The most important word in American, in Western culture, is "I.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

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.

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

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

The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.

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

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 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.

There is Ontario patriotism, Quebec patriotism, or Western patriotism; each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others, but there is no Canadian patriotism, and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.

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

There's a big difference between the Arabic and Western scales. One uses quarter tone system and one doesn't. So in order for me to compose real Arabic scale melodies, I would need an Arabic keyboard, and I don't have one. So I had to compose Arabesque melodies.

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection.

Western man is schizophrenic.

Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven.

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

Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.

We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.

Western films don't do very well in India.

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.

When in doubt, make a western.

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

You want a leader, Western leader, English-speaking? Mitt Romney.

You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

A corrupt corporate government employs blatantly corrupt scientists.

A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and it seemed to me they were half embarrassed in all that light, that civilized light.

A gentleman would leave.” He chuckled at that, his gaze locking with hers. “You and I are way past that, Annie.

Ain’t no good ever comes of it, if you ain’t steering yourself.

Ain’t nothing scarier than someone with nothing.

A joke is a witticism or play on words that’s meant to be funny. I say ‘meant to be’ because most jokes aren’t funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.

All this time I kept my gaze fixed on hers, an enormously difficult task given the gravitational pull exerted by her cleavage. While I was critical of many things when it came to so-called Western civilization, cleavage was not one of them. The Chinese might have invented gunpowder and the noodle, but the West had invented cleavage, with profound if underappreciated implications.

Always assume a corporate controlled government is corrupt until proven otherwise.

And if revenge was all I had, then I was goddamned if it wouldn’t be enough.