Western Quotes

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

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.

Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

I don't know why people are so down on the Best Western. They have the best sweet potato fries I've ever had.

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

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

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.

As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.

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.

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards.

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of "freedom," like a bastard brother of reform.

We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that we've all been blessed a lot and if you go to these parts they don't have a lot, even before the tsunami.

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.'

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.

What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?

We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

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.

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.

But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.

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

And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.