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Quotes About Western

Cowboy!" she hollered. Every man on the street turned to stare at her.
~ Lori Wilde
Gregorian chant was the father of western music. But it was eventually killed by its ungrateful children. Buried. Lost and forgotten.
~ Louise Penny
She said I've got a 40-gallon stetson hat With a 38-foot brim We could dance around the outside baby 'Til we both fall in And you can rope me on the prarie And you can ride me on the plain And I will be your Cinderella If you'll be my cowboy man
~ Unknown
Our [western] culture cuts us off from our natural roots, instead of contributing toward the cultivation of the natural beings we are. This tradition has, in this way, rendered us extraneous to our environment, extraneous to one another as living beings, en even extraneous to ourselves.
~ Luce Irigaray
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.
~ Ludwig von Mises
There is the pervasive role of advertising in Western society, the loss of family and social cohesiveness, the adoption of a sedentary lifestyle, and the lack of time to prepare fresh foods. In
~ Joel Fuhrman
All animal foods cause illness when consumed in amounts typically found in the Western diet. Why? Primarily because they are the wrong foods for humans.
~ John A. McDougall
Because the Western church has emphasized the work Jesus did for us as Savior rather than His position as Lord, lack of submission to His position of authority creates a significant fault in our foundation. Hear
~ John Bevere
To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.
~ Michel Houellebecq
I read a lot of Louis L'amour Western books.
~ Tee Grizzley
So traumatic is the idea of jumping out of a window [of a burning building] that it is easier to pretend the fire will never reach us. It is the same with death: we know it is approaching, but we act as if it is never going to come. The vast majority of us, especially here in the west, construct our lives based on the denial of death.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
why American industry adopted lean manufacturing 30 to 40 years after these methods began to produce benefits in Japan? Was it because the Japanese hid this approach from Western eyes? No. American industry waited until the full-scale implementations of these ideas at Toyota could no longer be ignored.
~ Donald G. Reinertsen
Already enough is known to show that the whole concept of the superiority of Western Christian civilization is one based on an arrogant ignorance of the rest of the world.
~ Unknown
Our current Western cultural plausibility structure elevates science and scorns and mocks religion, especially Christian teaching. As a result, believers in Western cultures do not as readily believe the supernatural worldview of the Bible in comparison with their Third World brothers and sisters.
~ J.P. Moreland
Feet The Hide and Tallow Men
~ Unknown
Plato and Aristotle.....survived to become the twin pillars of philosophic and scientific thinking in the Western world, supporting the massive edifice of Christianity. Plato's Theory of Forms, with it's inherent contempt for the physical world, and Aristotle's biological dualism, in which females were seen as failed males, provided the intellectual apparatus for the centuries of misogyny that were to follow.
~ Unknown
His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel.
~ Unknown
Whenever I look at the Western psychotherapies of the last hundred years,' Dr Rhinehart went on, 'it seems to me incredible that no one acknowledges the almost total failure of these therapies to cure human unhappiness. As Dr Raymond Felt has observed: "The ratio of spontaneous remission of symptoms and the rate of supposed 'cures' by the psychotherapies of the various schools has remained essentially the same throughout the twentieth century.
~ Luke Rhinehart
We might say that Western thinking is uniformly dualistic in its nature, whereas Eastern thinking is founded upon monism, whose overarching conception of reality is based on a single unifying principle rather than paired opposites.
~ Unknown
To many political planners and policy-makers in the Western world, Africa remains an irritating appendage to the human community.
~ Unknown
Now western movies, western novels, and western music were all forbidden again. Russian nationalism was on the rise. French bread was renamed "city bread.
~ Unknown
It was very modern and deeply western to listen to music that no one else could hear. Private music led to private thoughts. Private thoughts led to private desires, to private fulfillments or private hungers, to a whole private universe away from parents, family and society.
~ Madeleine Thien
Ghost Riders in the Sky" meets Vince Guaraldi!
~ John Densmore
The explosion of charity in the fourth century is one clear way in which Christ's teaching has impacted the history of western society.
~ John Dickson