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Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.
The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.
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.
I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.
In general, we like to shoot Breaking Bad like a modern day Western, and Sergio Leone is one of my all-time favorite directors.
If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
I like when people have Western style, but it's throwback Seventies-ish. I like pearlsnap shirts and a bow-tie like the KFC man.
China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.
I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.
I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.
Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
Lowering the cost of prescription drugs is one of the most important things Congress can do to help people in western Pennsylvania.
I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
From 1945 to 1974, the Western world - including America - was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.
When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.
I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
I think all groups who don't fit in clearly with Western music have to think, 'How can I expand my market? Where else can I perform?'
It's kinda me and Jon Stewart have a pact together - so he's making me famous in the Western world and I'm making him famous in Egypt!
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.
For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.
Conditions in Chinese factories are harsh. They're much harsher than they are in, for instance, the United States or any Western nation.
When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.
Western societies in general and universities in particular have not always been immune from institutional sexism. This is incontestable.
As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.'
You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun, I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
I started at such a young age learning every style of music, the country and the bluegrass and the western swing and the rock - everything.
My experience in relation to taking on the preachers of hate was saying to them it's compatible being British, being Western, being Muslim.
The message, 'stop Islam, defend freedom,' is a message that's not only important for the Netherlands but for the whole free Western world.
'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.
A part of 'Happy New Year' is inspired by western pop culture, the pop music videos of Michael Jackson, Madonna and Duran Duran in the '80s.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there... all the heartbreak of the country darkness.
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
I love trains. I don't even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but they're not.
I want to do a Western so bad because I want to ride horses and act. Those are two of my favorite things in the world to do. I want to do that.
Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables.
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.