Western Quotes

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.

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.

Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help.

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

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

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.

When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.

Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.

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

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.

So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.