Western World Quotes - Page 7

• There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

  Ehud Olmert

  Country, Islamic, Russia

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• Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of traveling carnivals, roadside attractions, and a beloved, eccentric father’s descent into Alzheimers. Just as her dad animated the handcarved, miniature western world of Tinkertown from coat hangers, inner tubes and old sewing machine motors, Tanya Ward Goodman has fashioned her complex and often hilarious memories into a beguiling, wry, and moving work of art.

  Michelle Huneven

  Art, Dad, Memories

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• The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately
  represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Good Luck, Reality, Thinking

  "Robert Anton Wilson: Searching For Cosmic Intelligence". Interview with Jeffrey Elliot, 1980.

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• I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today.

  Irina Tweedie

  Teacher, Heart, World

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• William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life... To forget such men is foolish.

  J. I. Packer

  Blessed, Men, Evil

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• Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.

  Bernard Lewis

  Islamic, Criticism, World

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• This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

  Hadley Freeman

  Smart, Successful, Pockets

  "How Amy Poehler and Tina Fey made the Golden Globes the first feminist film awards ceremony" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2015.

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

  Irrfan Khan

  Play, Lucky, Roles

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• Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeating - all in the name of the lowly Jesus?

  Upton Sinclair

  Religious, Jesus, Children

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• Meet the future; the future mode of transportation for this weary Western world. Now I'm not gonna make a lot of extravagant claims for this little machine. Sure, it'll change your whole life for the better, but that's all.

  Butch Cassidy

  Cycling, Machines, World

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• If Jesus remained dead, how can you explain the reality of the Christian church and its phenomenal growth in the first three centuries of the Christian era? Christ's church covered the Western world by the fourth century. A religious movement built on a lie could not have accomplished that....All the power of Rome and of the religious establishment in Jerusalem was geared to stop the Christian faith. All they had to do was to dig up the grave and to present the corpse. They didn't.

  Henry F. Schaefer, III

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

  John Millington Synge

  Cheer, Champion, World

  John Millington Synge, Ann Saddlemyer (1998). “Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World.

  Larry Norman

  Jesus, Church, World

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• Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.

  Audrey Meadows

  Men, Gdp, Roles

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• 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

  Color, Gdp, Titles

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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• Right now were in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King.

  Sandy Duncan

  Kings, War, Two

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• Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Hate, Writing, Eye

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• I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or not. Feminists who think they can abolish the sex trade are in a state of massive delusion. Only a ruthless, fascist regime of vast scale could eradicate the rogue sex impulse that is indistinguishable from the life force. Simply in the Western world, pagan sexuality has survived 2000 years of Judaeo-Christian persecution and is hardly going to be defeated by a few feminists whacking at it with their brooms.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Sex, Gay

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• Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

  Thomas Sowell

  Past, Gdp, Liberty

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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  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

  Country, Objectivity, Media

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

  Fareed Zakaria

  America, Employment, World

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

  Ismail Haniyeh

  World, Conflict, Mistrust

  "1967: Our rights have to be recognised" by Ismail Haniyeh, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2007.

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• The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

  Dennis Prager

  Religious, World, Secular

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• Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, Culture, World

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• Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Agency, Expression, Political

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Barrington Nevitt, Harold Adams Innis (2005). “Marshall McLuhan: American advertising”

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