Best 309 quotes in «western quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

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

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

Of course, western is my native music.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture

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

Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

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

The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.