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Quotes About Western

Vladimir Putin understood, from the Communist era when he was a KGB officer, that the Russian propaganda system of targeting Western media - that in the digital world, you could easily pull the Western media around by a nose ring.
~ Malcolm Nance
Islamophobia emerged from the Western countries, and this is a challenge that we all together need to surmount.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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.
~ Chen-Ning Yang
Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.
~ Dave Barry
From before I was born, we Arabs have been caught between two forces that, seemingly, cannot be defeated: our ruthless dictators, who oppress and humiliate us, and the cynical western powers, who would rather see us ruled by criminals loyal to them than have democratically elected leaders accountable to us.
~ Hisham Matar
What's Denver's feel? I know there're mountains, and people in western hats, but I never got a good sense of the city.
~ Darin Strauss
It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.
~ Robert Duvall
For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.
~ Hu Shih
As to the Amazon itself, the transition from conservation to sustainable development was a huge awakening since conservation was a western concept and strategy to encourage the developing world to protect biodiversity resources for the sake of future generations and the wellbeing of the planet.
~ Yossi Ghinsberg
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
~ George Saintsbury
A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
~ Amy Chua
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.
~ Tom Selleck
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists.
~ Norman Borlaug
In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
~ Tariq Ali
I have long believed, especially after the unprovoked Western attack on Iraq and the ransacking of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, that North Korea would not desist from the full development of its nuclear weapons program, despite threats and sanctions from the West and even from China.
~ Paul Keating
The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago.
~ Tariq Ali
Oriental reality is called ideology in Europe and America, and Western ideology is called reality in the Orient. Those viewpoints eat into people's souls and form two distinct kinds of beings.
~ Rudolf Steiner
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.
~ William H. Seward
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
~ Alan Furst
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.
~ Chaim Potok
I am very fond of western genres, including EDM.
~ Javed Ali
I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!
~ Will Hobbs
Someone once said that Sci Fi was the modern Western. What's my favorite? Well, anything that needs a misfit. I don't have a real favorite. My dream is to play something different.
~ William Sanderson
The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon or Churchill.
~ Stephen Kinzer