Westernised Quotes

#1. Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

Orhan Pamuk

#2. Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight hours a day!

Zhang Jindong

#3. The biggest danger I feel are an emerging group of Westernised, educated, champagne socialists and latte liberals who pontificate about social inequality, democracy and freedom in the comfort of their condos.

Calvin Cheng

#4. But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

Abu Bakar Bashir

#5. No Muslim country has ever done as much as Turkey to make itself over in the image of a European nation-state; the country's westernised elite brutally imposed secularism, among other things, on its devout population of peasants.

Pankaj Mishra

#6. I grew up in a very westernised environment and went to a private American school. But my personality was shy and quiet, and I wanted to wear the hijab but didn't have the courage, as I knew my friends would talk me out of it.

Leila Aboulela

#7. Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.

Hal Rothman

#8. What I want to know is how you go on when you look around
and don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have.

Charlotte Eriksson

#9. Revolutionary theory had frozen to a dogmatic cult, with a simplified, easily graspable catechism, and with No. 1 as the high priest celebrating the Mass.

Arthur Koestler

#10. Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

Jim Hightower

#11. Fashion allows you to be whoever you want to be.

Brad Goreski

#12. Catherine Le Vendeur," he asked sententiously, "have you known this man carnally?"
"No father," Catherine answered. "But, with your kind permission, I would very much like to.

Sharan Newman

#13. It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

Edwin Starr

#14. Trystero. The word hung in the air as the act ended and all lights were for a moment cut; hung in the dark to puzzle Oedipa Maas, but not yet to exert the power over her it was to.

Thomas Pynchon

#15. You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should equally stop you from taking him.

Dorothy Dunnett