West Quotes - Page 5

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.

Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down.

Oh, here he comes now, the May West of pro-wrestling.

God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings.

Western man is schizophrenic.

Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

Galleries in the West have probably been looking for exoticism. That's the reason my paintings initially sold well, I think. And then once they started selling, people said my works were very detailed. They may have represented something Japanese to them.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

The most important word in American, in Western culture, is "I."

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.

We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.

Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West

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

I'm so much more of an East Coast girl than a West Coast girl.

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.