Western Values Quotes

#1. I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend ... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

Bill Frist

#2. witness the sad demise of fundamental Western values. Pride. Order. Personal responsibility.

Richard Russo

#3. Islamic extremism may well be the greatest threat to Western values and Western security in the world.

Newt Gingrich

#4. My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#5. For a really relaxing time, you want to go to a place where the work ethic hasn't taken hold, where the culture hasn't been taken over by the western values of constant striving.

Tom Hodgkinson

#6. Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#7. The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

Silvia Cartwright

#8. We are not here to adopt Western values, we are here to colonize the U.S. (and Canada) and spread Islamic sharia law Canada has one of the easiest legal systems to penetrate and advance sharia from within ... but if that doesn't work, we won't hesitate to use violent jihad.

Tariq Ramadan

#9. We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.

Rick Perry

#10. The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.

Ken Livingstone

#11. I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.

Richelle Mead

#12. One of the worst things I've learned about getting older is that there seems to be more change that you don't like than there was when you were younger and you can't do nothin' about it.

Dan Groat

#13. Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

Michael Shermer

#14. If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into.

Michael Leunig

#15. I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values, which so many of these country songs are related to.

Clifton Collins Jr.

#16. Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.

Dennis Prager

#17. Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.

Bernard Lewis

#18. On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

Amos Oz

#19. Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future - falls into place.

Kyle Bristow

#20. The divides are not Islam and western society, the divide is between people who have different values. We must promote connections between people who want to contribute to human values. People who share that commitment can collaborate across cultural divides.

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

#21. I don't like being in houses alone.

Martin Scorsese

#22. I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

Arthur Henderson

#23. If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation.

Harold Bloom

#24. Black is greenest ever.

Vikrmn

#25. The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish.

Sigmund Freud

#26. If you want to bring the people of this world together, you have to be willing to engage with countries that do not share our [western] democratic values.

Herbert Hainer

#27. The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent.

Carol Haney

#28. A lot of these movies are informed by the movies that come before them.

Len Wiseman

#29. The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty, human rights, and humanity have been destroyed. They have gone up in smoke.

Osama Bin Laden

#30. American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.

Ishmael Reed

#31. All of Western civilization is highly influenced by the Bible, so much so that today people take for granted that our morals and our values are not common sense, but biblically based.

Karla Perry

#32. It's a path that grows government, restricts freedom and liberty and compromises those values, those Judeo-Christian, Western civilization values that made us such a great and exceptional nation in the first place.

Paul Ryan

#33. Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.

Vaclav Klaus

#34. By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values.

Ibn Warraq

#35. If you are opportunity oriented, you will find opportunities all around you. If you are problem oriented, you will see problems all around you.

Debasish Mridha

#36. Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions - rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time.

Peter Drucker

#37. Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a per-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it also had to create these. It had to educate society - and the state itself - into the values and ideas of liberal constitutionalism.

Orlando Figes