West Quotes - Page 33

• The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

  John Burdett

  Mind, World, Body

  John Burdett (2012). “Bangkok Haunts”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped.

  Andy Adams

  Men, Average, Cities

  Andy Adams (2013). “Complete Western Collection”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The word sacred comes from sacrifice, to cut up. That means that in order to have a sacred journey, you have to give up something, sacrifice; but few people today in the West want to hear about that. Americans want the boon without the labyrinth.Pilgrimage starts the wheel, it turns the wheel of samsara, the wheel of life, and we have to live with the consequences.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Giving Up, Mean, Cutting

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• Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

  Flora Lewis

  Philosophy, Democracy, May

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• In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

  Luther Allison

  Two Sides, Chicago, Lifetime

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• There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.

  Andy Williams

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the darkness until one comes to the sunrise.

  Gerald Lawson Sittser

  Running, Light, Darkness

  Gerald Lawson Sittser, Jerry L. Sittser (1998). “A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss”, p.33, Zondervan

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• In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion.

  Dave Barry

  Erosion, Mountain, Facts

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• When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

  Louie Giglio

  Distance, Enemy, East

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• Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the West.

  Russell E. Train

  Religious, Teaching, Environment

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• When LOVE played the still hipper Whisky A Go-Go, further west along Sunset, Arthur Lee claims they 'started the whole hippy thing' in tandem with an in-crowd of freaks led by aging beatnik sculptor Vito Paulekas. It was Vito, Carl Franzoni, Sue, Beatle Bob, Bryan Maclean and me...people would come to Ben Frank's to hang out with us after we played shows.

  Barney Hoskyns

  Sunset, People, Crowds

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• In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Leader, Taoism

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• In the West when you talk about yin and yang, people normally think of yin and yang as something that's linear. But in the east we tend to think of yin and yang as circles. They're two circles that actually can lie on top of each other, yet they remain separate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lying, Thinking, Circles

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• Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's turned the hourglass over and the sand is running through. Will you be liberated or will you die? The only way you can beat death is liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Running, Buddhism

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• This is football from the 19th century. It's very difficult to play a football match when only one team wants to play. A football match is about two teams playing. I told Big Sam, they need points. To come here the way they did, is that acceptable? Maybe it is, they need points. The only thing I could bring more was Black & Decker - a Black & Decker to destroy the West Ham wall.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Wall, Team

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• The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Littles, Spirituality, Materialism

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2608, Manonmani Publishers

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• A bomb under the West car park at Twickenham on an international day would end fascism in England for a generation.

  Philip Toynbee

  Car, Generations, Bombs

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• Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.

  Walter Lippmann

  Fall, Government, Order

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.241, Harvard University Press

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• My mom blames California for me being a lesbian. Everything was fine until you moved out there. That's right, Mom, we have mandatory lesbianism in West Hollywood. The Gay Patrol busted me, and I was given seven business days to add a significant amount of flannel to my wardrobe.

  Coley Sohn

  Mom, Gay, California

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• See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place for a Math. (in Belur, West Bengal).

  Swami Vivekananda

  Nice, Math, Flow

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• I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

  Diane Abbott

  Children, Wall, Mum

  "Diane Abbott: I sent my son to private school so he wouldn't end up in a gang". www.mirror.co.uk. June 21, 2010.

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• For decades, people have known the chemical-propulsion approach to space travel is really not going to get us that far. Chemical propulsion is essentially like the horse-and-cart approach to the exploration of the American West, instead of the steamboat or the railroad.

  Franklin Chang Diaz

  Horse, Future, Space

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• We are all descended from cavemen who broke the skulls of their enemies with rocks for fun or profit. But that hardly mitigates the crimes of a man who does the same thing today. I see no problem judging the behavior of the Islamic State and its apologists from the vantage point of the West's high horse, because we've earned the right to sit in that saddle.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Horse, Fun, Islamic

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• After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Charlie Hebdo, Islam, Trying

  "How to Answer the Paris Terror Attack". Article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.metafilter.com. January 7, 2015.

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• The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Notable, Should, Terrified

  "How to Answer the Paris Terror Attack". Article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.metafilter.com. January 7, 2015.

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