West Quotes - Page 7

Having only wisdom and talent is the lowest tier of usefulness.

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

Had the Holocaust happened in Tahiti or the Congo, as it has; had it happened in South America, as it has; had it happened in the West Indies, as it has - you must remember that within fifty years of Columbus's arrival, only the bones remained of the people called the Arawaks, with one or two of them in Spain as specimens. Had the Holocaust committed under the Nazis happened somewhere else, we wouldn't be talking about it the way we talk about it.

Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture

I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture.

I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'.

The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we're asked to be the sheriff.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights.

If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.

The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent of the gross national product.

I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I cant enjoy anything.

Touch water in the West and you touch everything.

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

Today the West exists only to bear witness to its own obsolescence.

Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.