Top 1200 Western Values Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith dominates.

Why should the idea of Western liberal democracy automatically imply unregulated free-market capitalism?

The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.

"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged."

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

Well, I'm comfortable in all kinds of clothes - Indian, Western, casual, formal. I shop for them wherever I go.

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.

Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

I started off playing the harmonium and singing. By the time I was eight or so, my interest moved to Western instrumental music.

Conservatives of Western North Carolina should send Mark Meadows to Congress. We need his help.

Everyone has a first love and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.

Russia's oil fields are mature and require capital and Western technology even to keep production flat.

I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.

Western influences have turned the world into a small global village, particularly through television and other mediums.

In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

People who have no values have no value.

Culture is a reflection of values.

Where do we get our values from?

Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better.

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.

I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

Training a reliable military force that adheres to Western norms and standards is the work of a generation, not a few months.

The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

Lowering the cost of prescription drugs is one of the most important things Congress can do to help people in western Pennsylvania.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

True, I drive an Italian sports car around Hollywood, but the radio is tuned to a country-and-Western station.

When Western filmmakers look for an Indian they want him to play a snake charmer, a chauffeur or a peanut vendor.

When I was 7, we bought a big house at the corner of Wilshire and Western and put in one of the earliest swimming pools in Southern California.

The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.

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.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

Western Nebraska is the only place in all my travels where I have seen the dust blowing and the rain falling at the same time.

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

There are no monotone "values" in biology.

I know who I am and the values I have.

Architecture is an expression of values.

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

Man, that Jim Lauderdale always looks good - he's got more western suits than anybody.

In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.

An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

I am very happy to help share the great treasure trove of Japanese content with the western world.

Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.

Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.

I hope people appreciate Chancellor Merkel because, although she traditionally is considered center-right and I'm considered center-left, the truth is that we share those core values, and those are worth protecting. As the senior leader in Europe, as the leader who's been longest lasting, I think she has great credibility, and she is willing to fight for those values. I'm glad that she's there, and I think the German people should appreciate her. Certainly, I have appreciated her as a partner.

There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.

What's Denver's feel? I know there're mountains, and people in western hats, but I never got a good sense of the city.

Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.

Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.