Western Quotes

I am a genre lover – everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie. (Quentin Tarantino)
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. View quote
Kenneth Clark
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. View quote
Gore Vidal
They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World. View quote
John Millington Synge
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence. View quote
Walter Lippmann
Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized. View quote
Ulrich Beck
Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50.00 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to. View quote
Dan Aykroyd
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries. View quote
Gary Becker
You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society. (Stephen Harper)
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. View quote
John Dryden
I was familiar with that and "Rio Bravo.” "Rio Bravo” was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time. View quote
John Leguizamo
The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles. View quote
Phil Ochs
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World. View quote
Buchi Emecheta
There will... be natural propriety in using an eastern light for bedrooms and libraries, a western light in winter for baths and winter apartments, and a northern light for picture galleries and other places in which a steady light is needed; for that quarter of the sky grows neither light nor dark with the course of the sun, but remains steady and unshifting all day long. View quote
Vitruvius
I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining. View quote
Václav Klaus
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. View quote
Katharine Whitehorn
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star. View quote
Walter Scott
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. (John Burroughs)
To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting. View quote
Amy Chua
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term. View quote
Peter L. Berger
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism. View quote
Christopher Dawson