West Quotes - Page 3

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

Take the lowest place, and you shall reach the highest.

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of Black Consciousness...He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or North America, and he made Blacks aware of their strength when united.

JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.

The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions, and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it.

Some goin' east; and-a some goin' west, Some stand aside to try their best. Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small. They just can't even find no food at all.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.

You don’t need miracles in the west. You have insurance.

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

You're brainwashed in the West with equal temperament, so it's quite hard for people who like following rules to get outside of that and see what you can do. But for me it's easy because I don't work like that. I work intuitively.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

The West is anything but altruistic.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by U.S. Marines.

I believe that human brilliance manifests itself only in flashes, among rare individuals. For this reason, humanity as a whole is enormously destructive: the creation of something as devastating as Western culture, which is now allowed to spread throughout the world, offers sufficient proof of this fact.

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.