Quotes About Western

I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that need to be eradicated. For the ideological mentors of Breivik, a similar disturbance comes from the burqa, which is banned in France and Belgium, partly thanks to their efforts.

I really want to do a Western. I want to be the dude who is riding horses and doing exciting things - something where I get to do something physical and have to train for it. I don't want to be the damsel.

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.

I had trained a bit in Bharatanatyam in the past but did not learn in depth. The same goes with jazz, western, and cinematic dance, as I was quite laid back with the training.

I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I'm sorry, but this is not a AAA nation.

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.

Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

There's this long history of colonialism and the colonial gaze when applied to matters related to China. So a lot of conceptions about China in literary representations in the West are things you can't even fight against because they've been there so long that they've become part of the Western imagination of China.

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.

Just because it's got a gun doesn't make it a crime novel, and just because there's a horse doesn't make it a western.

None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian flagged and crewed vessel.

When Western politicians propose blanket discrimination against Islam, they bolster the terrorists' propaganda.

I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.

The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but above all the Passion, where you can find images for every stage and every moment.

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

In our age of digital connection and constantly online life, you might say that two political regimes are evolving, one Chinese and one Western, which offer two kinds of relationships between the privacy of ordinary citizens and the newfound power of central authorities to track, to supervise, to expose and to surveil.

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.