Quotes About West

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

In the West, it's just a given that art exists in this high-class place. But in Japan, there's no high class. The minute you come out, you're low class.

At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready.

Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.

People in the West want to hear Indian melody, not someone who is aping the West.

I feel very at home in L.A., I think, because it's dry, and there's sun, like the West Texas I grew up in.

I think there is some kind of disillusionment in the West about the gains of modernity and of economic growth and it takes a form of skepticism about the gains of prosperity generally.

Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.

For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.

In the U.S. or in the West, mobility means owning your own car. Cities are designed around spread-out suburbs, societal customs are that kids get a car after a certain age, and car ownership is very high.

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.

You know in the West they support realistic forces.

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.

I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist.

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.