Western World Quotes - Page 5

• The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.

  Jamake Highwater

  Dance, People, Dancing

  Jamake Highwater (1978). “Dance: rituals of experience”

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• The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to it. If I want others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see however strange it may be to mine. Ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of man to man... but that is a limited ethics.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Thinking, Animal

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• Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom. Necessity is the only ultimate justification known to the mind.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Reading, Political, Soul

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.28, Regnery Publishing

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• It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.

  Whittaker Chambers

  World, Facts, Communism

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

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• The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Degrees, World, Crisis

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.17, Regnery Publishing

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• I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only become more tolerant. Mind you, not toward Islam—only toward certain other Eastern cultures, which offer some sort of spiritual attraction to the spirit-hungry West and are, at the same time, too distant from the Western world-view to constitute any real challenge to its values.

  Muhammad Asad

  Spiritual, Real, Views

  Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.10, The Book Foundation

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• The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln.

  Warren Adler

  War, Loss, Impact

  FaceBook post by Warren Adler from Jun 25, 2013

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• The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.

  Toni Morrison

  Ideas, Should Have, World

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• Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Powerful, World, Progressive

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• Obama, who is becoming more and more preacher-like, wants to be the Punisher-in-Chi ef of the Western World, the Avenger-in-Chie f. There is something oddly Roman about him. ... The lesser races must be civilized and they must be punished... Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

  Robert Fisk

  Race, World, Want

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• I can't help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an increasing trend toward the next logical step, employee ownership. It is a path that befits a free people.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Believe, People

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.

  Emir Kusturica

  Hate, People, Understanding

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• The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.

  Azim Premji

  World Love, World, Western

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• We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

  Ornette Coleman

  Music, Class, Suffering

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• Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

  Germaine Greer

  Girl, Order, Land

  "The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause". Book by Germaine Greer, 1991.

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• In the West, people pride themselves on being the defenders of democratic rights and the champions of freedom. But if the Western world really cares for the benevolence of the whole world, it will have to turn to introspection.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Pride, Rights

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• A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event.

  Tommy Franks

  Country, Order, America

  "General Tommy Franks". Interview by Marvin R. Shanken, www.cigaraficionado.com. December 2003.

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• It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Law, Events, Aristocracy

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.9, Beard Books

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• Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.

  David Berlinski

  Religious, Ignorance, Dark

  David Berlinski (2009). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.65, Basic Books

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• The western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

  Tommy Franks

  Couple, Years, Liberty

  "General Tommy Franks". Interview with Marvin R. Shanken, www.cigaraficionado.com. November, 2003.

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• In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Color, Gone Away, White

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• One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifically false. If someone tells me that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, in my opinion he should see a psychiatrist.

  Francis Crick

  Country, Believe, Years

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• Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Issues, Citizens, World

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• The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world.

  Judith Stacey

  Couple, Feminist, Prejudice

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• Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.

  Walter Lippmann

  Life, Clever, Sacrifice

  "The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy".

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