Top 1200 Western Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesn't affect them.

There's only two kinds of music I don't like....Country and Western.

Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity...

Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good.

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.

This is the western world; if somebody can make a buck, they're going to try to do it.

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.

Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.

It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.

In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood.

The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

'Illustrado' is not an autobiography. Only the ideas are autobiographical; the ideas of bitterness, frustration, unchanging society, an individual lost, social awkwardness... The book satirises archetypes from across Filipino society, and I felt that the least I could do was offer myself up, too.

I am very fond of western genres, including EDM.

When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

A cashless society promises a world of limitation, control, and surveillance - all of which the poorest Americans already have in abundance, of course. For the most vulnerable, the cashless society offers nothing substantively new; it only extends the reach of the existing paternal bureaucratic state.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

The word 'midget' is a slur. It evolved from P. T. Barnum's era of circuses and freak shows. Society has evolved. So should our vocabulary. Language is a powerful tool. It does not just name our society. It shapes it.

I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.

Socialisation is not optional. It's an inescapable contract, and our birth into the world is our signature of agreement. Norms and ideologies vary from society to society, and most of them weren't formed during our lifetimes but were handed down from one generation to the next.

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.

We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.

In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now is like 100 years before. We are living in a society that has no history. There’s no precedent for this kind of society so we can break the old patterns.

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

Health is the fastest growing failing business in western civilization.

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

One of my favorite road trips of all time was here, in Australia, in Western Oz.

There's only two kinds of music I don't like... Country and Western.

We're the only western country that doesn't have a national health care ID.

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a whole.... I always thank the Lord in seeing mothers and fathers of large families, together with their children, committed to the life of the Church and of society.

When a society doesn't know what to do with its young, it's in real trouble. When the young don't know what to do with society - at the very least, revolutions start there.

The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.

I actually feel pretty inspired and hopeful by the fact that protests are becoming the norm now. They're less part of fringe society and more a part of mainstream society. That's exciting. There is no fringe anymore. We should all be included.

Economic development cannot take a nation forward on its own. We need a society and economy which complement each other. We need to take care of the poor, deprived and left behind sections of society.

Western audiences are way more forgiving for the image of a star.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

I've been familiar with western fantasy novels since I was a boy.

Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

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

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.