Quotes of: Western-civilization Keyword

Doc Potter: Is it true that you dynamited a wagon full of prospectors in the western territories last spring? Ben Wade: No, that's a lie... It was a train full.

3:10 to Yuma

Elwood: What kind of music do you usually have here? Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country *and* western.

The Blues Brothers

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better.

Anita Desai

Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.

Ayn Rand

All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come to my shows, I just don't exist for them and they don't exist for me.

Al Stewart

I do not think there was anything abusive in my house. Yet, I stand by a lot of my critiques of Western parenting. I think there's a lot of questions about how you instill true self-esteem.

Amy Chua

People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity...

Tadashi Yanai

I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow.

Vincent Frank

I will follow anyone... And tell everyone... How grateful I am... To the Western nations.

Widad Akrawi

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Will Hobbs

You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.

Majel Barrett

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.

Azar Nafisi

Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a means of reducing Russia's reach on its western frontiers and seeking to isolate it. Its former East European client state...

Martin Jacques

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

Expensive People

There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.

Gone with the Wind

This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

Arthur Erickson

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

John Boyd Orr

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

Robert Kiyosaki

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright