Quotes About Western

the most enjoyable Western she knew and one of the most fruitful to analyze, but her students could see only John Wayne's politics: his presence wiped out the rest of the film for them, destroyed its personality. "But one has to take their feelings into account," she said.

Bruno] Latour argues that one of the foundational gestures of western modernity has been the effort to formulate and police a heightened antimony between nonhuman nature and human culture. -- Randall Styers, Making Magic , p. 17

California is one of the most country-est states there is. We're really country.

I've got a bit of the eccentricity of Africa and a bit of Western calm.

I'd like to do a cowboy film. I suppose I've come close to it on occasion, but not really to a classic cowboy film.

Syria's continued alliance with Iran became one of the main justifications of Western attempts to overthrow Assad. Tom Donilon, President Obama's national-security adviser, said in 2011 that the "end of the Assad regime would constitute Iran's greatest setback in the region yet—a strategic blow that will further shift the balance of power in the region against Iran."14

Since September 11, 2001, however, we can no longer rest comfortably with such domesticated pictures of Jesus. We can no longer ignore the impact of Western imperialism on subordinated peoples and the ways in which peoples whose lives have been invaded sometimes react. The coincidental historical analogy is too disquieting, that is, that the Roman Empire had come to control the ancient Middle East, including Galilee and Judea, where Jesus operated.

My purpose holds, To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars until I die.

The Qur'an was attempting to give women a legal status that most Western women would not enjoy until the nineteenth century. The

Henceforth women were marginalized and became second-class citizens in the new civilizations of the Oikumene. Their position was particularly poor in Greece, for example—a fact that Western people should remember when they decry the patriarchal attitudes of the Orient.

The Quran gave women rights of inheritance and divorce centuries before Western women were accorded such status. The Quran prescribes some degree of segregation and veiling for the Prophet's wives, but there is nothing in the Quran that requires the veiling of all women or their seclusion in a separate part of the house.

The Qur'an was attempting to give women a legal status that most Western women would not enjoy until the nineteenth century.

This sheriff goes into a saloon and says, "I'm lookin' for a cowboy wearing a brown paper vest and brown paper pants.' He waited a beat, making sure Sara was listening. 'The bartender says, "What's he wanted for?" And the sheriff says, "Rustling.

If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had - their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.

It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.

The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.

Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.

I have a real respect for tobacco as a substance, and it just seems very funny how the Western attitude is, "Wow, people are addicted to this, think of all the money you can make off it."

But if they ever saw a sunrise on a mountain morning/Watched those cotton candy clouds roll by/They'd know why I live beneath these Western Skies.

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

I grew up on Shane movie and my mother loves it and I've watched it hundreds of times.

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies we wouldn't originally have thought of as westerns.