Top 1200 Western Values Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.

It seemed like whenever a Western was going to get made, it came my way.

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

Looting is the only way left for the Western financial system to make money.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

In the nature of our existence, we must act to achieve values. And in order to act appropriately, we need to value the beneficiary of our actions. In order to seek values, we must consider ourselves worthy of enjoying them. In order to fight for our happiness, we must consider ourselves worthy of happiness.

It worries me that western journalists, especially British ones, call everyone they don't like 'marginal.'

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.

A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.

Fairly or not, Western consumers associate Chinese products primarily with 'low price.'

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.

There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'

I got heckled off stage in Western Australia at a music festival once.

It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.

I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

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.

Moral questions may not have objective answers-whether revealed by God or by science-but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a rationality that emerges out of social need. That rationality can only be discovered through exercising the human potential for rational dialogue, the potential for thinking about the world, and for discussing, debating and persuading others. Values can never be entirely wrenched apart from facts; but neither can they be collapsed into facts. It is the existence of humans as moral agents that allows us to act as the bridge between facts and values.

Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.

Katie Lane is a wonderful new voice in Western romance fiction.

I was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven.

I'm one of the people who believe the great lines come from either Western or bluegrass music.

There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.

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

I have very strong belief in bringing Western and Eastern medicine together. It doesn't have to be polarized.

Exporting this Western model of democracy in countries that don't want it or are not ready creates disasters.

But I never worked with a northern horse before. They are very different from western horses.

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

I can manage to get into any outfit, whether Indian or Western, and carry it off.

It is alright to ape Western music, but we have to ask ourselves if that is what we need in our films.

I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world.

This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.

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

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have made the relationship between the United States and Israel a special-even on occasion a wonderful-relationship ... The United States admires Israel for all that it has overcome and for all that it has accomplished. We are proud of the strong bond we have forged with Israel, based on our shared values and ideals. That unique relationship will endure just as Israel has endured.

The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed on him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations - with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

People change, mature, and develop their values, attitudes, and preferences as a function of age. It is actually a strategy deployed by many organizations. The idea is that once Millennials grow up -get a mortgage, family- they will start acting like us and sharing our values. Personally, I would not make that bet. Even if it were to happen, Millennials are putting off seven or more years what other generations have done. Waiting for Millennials to "grow up" is risky when it comes to knowledge transfer, talent development, and competitive advantage.

Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.

I know I am always pumped, as an audience member, to go and see a Western.

Western classical music is participative. Look at the number of people who are involved in a symphony.

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.

My vision for Western Kentucky's economy is to turn the region into a world leader in agritech.

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.

I would love to have a song that fusions western arrangement with classic Indian instruments.

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.

There is no way I could've been so durable playing in the Western Conference. The travel is nuts.

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.