Western Quotes - Page 4

Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue.

Elections are a Western jerk-off.

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.

Psychosis is a very Western phenomena.

They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?

Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same. Freedom not tyranny. Democracy not dictatorship. The rule of law not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.

Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.

Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

I've always wanted to do a Western.

I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.

If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that...

Typically, in Westerns, people who are in a Western feel like they're in a Western. It's almost like they know they do all these Western things.