Quotes of Western - somelinesforyou

“ Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. ”

- Gary Zukav

“ What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ We've lost seven of our last eight matches. The only team that we have beaten is Western Samoa. It's a good job we didn't play the whole of Samoa. ”

- Gareth Davies

“ Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call out there. ”

- Truman Capote

“ Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality. ”

- Karen Allen

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

- Akihito

“ Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to. ”

- Dan Aykroyd

“ Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race. ”

- John Oliver Killens

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

- Octavio Paz

“ If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there. ”

- Robert Kiyosaki

“ After the Second World War, great Europeans like Schumann, Monet and Spinelli created a vision of a Europe without war and united in co-operation. This dream has come true for us in Western Europe. ”

- Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“ The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself. ”

- Dan Quayle

“ Most people think that classical music is a higher form than jazz only because it is from Europe, and we were taught in schools only about Western European history. ”

- Herbie Hancock

“ More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people. ”

- Joseph Lelyveld

“ Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies. ”

- Theodore L. Cuyler

“ All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. ”

- Stanley Garn

“ Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment of expression. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. ”

- H.H. Munro

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

- Aharon Appelfeld

“ The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years. ”

- John Spong

“ Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union. ”

- Samuel Goldwyn

“ Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. ”

- Lord Clark Kenneth

“ One of the stupidest theories of Western life. ”

- Malcolm Muggeridge

“ The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer. ”

- Unknown

“ Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. ”

- Camille Paglia

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

- Wyndham Lewis

“ Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics — a rational ethics — as a precondition of rebirth. ”

- Ayn Rand
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