Quotes of: Western-world Keyword

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

Ornette Coleman

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

Irrfan Khan

I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values, which so many of these country songs are related to.

Clifton Collins, Jr.

In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

Omar Bongo

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

Ismail Haniyeh

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

Helen Fisher

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

Barbara Amiel

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

Richard Jenkins

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest...

John Hope Franklin

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

Christopher Dawson

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

Gore Vidal

Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western boo...

Cai Guo-Qiang

When I took on the title sponsorship of the Western European League and the World Cup Final in October 2010, I did it because I love the sport and I love horses. It has proved to be a perfect match for the Reem Acra brand.

Reem Acra

I never really did a western western.

John Malkovich

We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it through Western eyes, using Western concepts. If you want to know why we unerringly seem to get China wrong... this is the ...

Martin Jacques

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Nhat Hanh

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

Caitlin Moran

The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The author called us to re-examine assumptions bequeathed to us from Greece and Rome. Just as a bridge built by the Roman Empire might have held up tolerably for centuries under foot traffic but crumble under the weight of a modern truck, the author ...

How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

The embodiment of mind leads us to a philosophy of embodied realism. Our concepts cannot be a direct reflection of external, objective, mind-independent reality because our sensorimotor system plays a crucial role in shaping them. On the other hand, ...

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought