The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and...
To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.
Westerns are cool, man. I'm big on Westerns. I just love the grittiness.
Finally, in 1888, Cixi approved the Western-style Navy Regulations. It was in endorsing these Regulations that she effectively unveiled China’s first national flag. The country had had no national ensign, until its engagement with the West at the b...
[first lines] Sydney Schanberg: Cambodia. To many westerners it seemed a paradise. Another world, a secret world. But the war in neighboring Vietnam burst its borders, and the fighting soon spread to neutral Cambodia. In 1973 I went to cover this sid...
The Western world is having an identity crisis.
I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
We have become the charnel house of the Western World.
Much as Cold War nuclear strategists could argue about winning a nuclear war by having more survivors, advocates of a Global Warming War might see the United States, Western Europe, or Russia as better able to ride out climate disruption and manipula...
Our knowledge of life is limited to death
When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.
For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.
There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.
A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.
This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework that would guarantee that the men who fought felt that they themselves in a ...
The things men did or felt they had to do.
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
