Top 1200 Western Civilization Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on September 30, 2024.
As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.
This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.
Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.
A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.
There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.
Exporting this Western model of democracy in countries that don't want it or are not ready creates disasters.
In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.
Fairly or not, Western consumers associate Chinese products primarily with 'low price.'
Looting is the only way left for the Western financial system to make money.
Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
I was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography.
The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.
My vision for Western Kentucky's economy is to turn the region into a world leader in agritech.
I'm one of the people who believe the great lines come from either Western or bluegrass music.
I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.
The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
That's something that I'm trying to do in my work, to send a message to western people. They're the ones who are completely disconnected.
Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
It seemed like whenever a Western was going to get made, it came my way.
A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.
There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'
It is alright to ape Western music, but we have to ask ourselves if that is what we need in our films.
I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.
Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.
The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.
I would love to have a song that fusions western arrangement with classic Indian instruments.
In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.
No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.
Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
I can manage to get into any outfit, whether Indian or Western, and carry it off.
There is no way I could've been so durable playing in the Western Conference. The travel is nuts.
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
Western classical music is participative. Look at the number of people who are involved in a symphony.
Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.
It worries me that western journalists, especially British ones, call everyone they don't like 'marginal.'
We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.
I know I am always pumped, as an audience member, to go and see a Western.
As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.
The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.
I have very strong belief in bringing Western and Eastern medicine together. It doesn't have to be polarized.
In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.
The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.
