Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called '...
But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.'
I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.
The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
I'm not sitting around saying, 'Man, I'd really love to direct a western.' That's just not something I'm probably going to do, mostly because I'm allergic to horses.
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.
If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.
I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.
After 'Baby Doll,' I did some Westerns. I would try to do something so far away from 'Baby Doll.'
A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.
[first title card] Title: The Western and Atlantic Flyer speeding into Marietta, Ga., in the Spring of 1861.
I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
