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Quotes About Western

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.
~ Whittaker Chambers
Economics is not the central problem of this century. It is a relative problem which can be solved in relative ways. Faith is the central problem of this age. The Western world does not know it, but it already possesses the answer to this problem-but only provided that its faith in God and the freedom He enjoins is as great as Communism's faith in Man.
~ Whittaker Chambers
Ocidente construiu um olhar sobre o trabalho colocando-o como o centro da vida, da realização e da dignidade da pessoa humana. E jogou por terra outros pensamentos, outras teorias, outras práticas que não levavam em consideração uma visão de tempo centrada na produção.
~ Daniel Munduruku
The nexus between crime and radical Islam is one of the most disturbing emerging trends confronting U.S. and Western European counterterrorism officials.
~ Daniel Silva
The Western world, he believed, was afflicted by the curse of short-term thinking, the inevitable result of democracy.
~ Daniel Yergin
But with the new sanctions, the Western companies had to drop out. As the Russian engineer observed, Western companies were "afraid to touch the Bazhenov as if it were a fire."9
~ Daniel Yergin
I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
~ Danny Boyle
The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.
~ James Buchan
Apart from the museums that anchor the great cities of Europe and America, the Roman Catholic Church is what remains of "Christendom," the generating aesthetic and intellectual tradition of Western civilization.
~ James Carroll
As the ego does not represent the whole psyche, so the Western mind cannot speak for the whole world.
~ James Hillman
Right and wrong isn't a matter of ethics, rather it's the geography in which you reside and whose control you're under. Tallinn Manual 2.0 is based largely on western international humanitarian law.
~ James Scott
The powerful Western image of childhood innocence does not seem to benefit Black children. Black children are born guilty.
~ Dorothy Roberts
I have the instinctive reaction of a Western man when confronted with sublimely incomprehensible. I grab my camera and start to photograph it
~ Douglas Adams
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
~ Douglas Adams
uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of
~ Douglas Adams
Say, gentlemen, this business is getting on my nerves. Murder and the snow and all, and nothing doing. Just hanging about and killing time. I'd like to get busy after someone or something." "The true Western spirit of hustle," said Poirot with a smile.
~ Agatha Christie
The true Western spirit of hustle," said Poirot with a smile.
~ Agatha Christie
Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx.
~ Aijaz Ahmad
Livin' out here has changed a lot of things. Suspend the conventions of eastern life. That's probably why you like it so much, Hank. Women plowing land and pannin' for gold. Men sewin' up their own britches, cookin' for themselves. That's well an' find. It's good for the people an' good for the country. But too much? No, sir. Without women an' marriage, wed' all be shot or drunk ourselves to death or died of the clap. No, sir. - Prentice Ritter
~ Alan Geoffrion
if the church fails to make the shift to apostolic movements again, Christian influence in Western culture will continue to fade, and church attendance will remain in its current trajectory of decline. All we can say in writing this book is, not on our shift! Not if we can help it.
~ Alan Hirsch
When I started, there was a phase where I wanted to be a cowboy star. I didn't want to do deep, serious parts.
~ Fred Willard
I got introduced to Western music and it inspired me. One of my favourite bands is Pink Floyd.
~ Anupam Roy
The fact that the Liberals killed Energy East - a pipeline that would have brought Western Canadian energy to the Maritimes - that is a lost opportunity.
~ Andrew Scheer
Idaho town where he could ride horses
~ RaeAnne Thayne