But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
Tom Hanks

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.
Tom Hanks

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
Tennessee Williams

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.
Rob Walton

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
Marshall McLuhan

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.
Margaret J. Wheatley

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.
Hu Shih

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
Gore Vidal

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
Robert Anton Wilson

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.
Dennis Farina

What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
Imran Khan

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
Satyajit Ray

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.
Satyajit Ray

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of "freedom," like a bastard brother of reform.
Wyndham Lewis

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
Harold Pinter

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.
J. Philippe Rushton

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
Naguib Mahfouz