West Quotes

Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. (Rudyard Kipling)
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State. View quote
O. Henry
For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India. View quote
Shahrukh Khan
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. View quote
André Malraux
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. View quote
Viktor Frankl
Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, "I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any." We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once. View quote
Gore Vidal
If you want to go east, don't go west. View quote
Ramakrishna
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do. View quote
Samuel P. Huntington
Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school. View quote
George Mikes
You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society. (Stephen Harper)
Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
isn't qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on 'The West Wing,' (television show) let alone to be a real one. View quote
Ann Coulter
Berlin is the testicle of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin. View quote
Nikita Khrushchev
So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the West today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is. View quote
Niall Ferguson
He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state ... View quote
Ariel Sharon
The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and experimentation. View quote
Carroll Quigley
I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south. View quote
Christopher Columbus
Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star. View quote
Walter Scott
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda. (Martin Buber)
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so. View quote
John F. Kennedy
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more. View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. View quote
Tadao Ando
John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue. View quote
Bradley Whitford
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