Western Identity Quotes

ISIS and radical Islam have declared war on us not because of anything we have done - not because we are a friend to Israel and not because we have not yet toppled the bloody Syrian dictator Assad. ISIS and radical Islamists hate us for who we are. The irony is, we ourselves do not know who we are.

My position here is that conservatives need a realistic approach to immigration that best serves and preserves our country's status and identity as a relatively high-functioning, at least for now, Western and First World nation. That status will not automatically maintain itself. It is fragile. It is precarious and vulnerable to erosion.

The message, 'stop Islam, defend freedom,' is a message that's not only important for the Netherlands but for the whole free Western world.

I must dress in costly materials. People scrutinize every article I wear with critical curiosity. The very fact of having grown up in the West, subjects me to more searching observation.

The legitimacy of the West is contested by the very skepticism it holds so dear.

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

Western culture is what is at risk from immigration from the Middle East.

The separation of the Western man from the seaboard, and his environment, made him in a large degree free from European precedents and forces. He looked at things independently and with small regard or appreciation for the best Old World experience. He had no ideal of a philosophical, eclectic nation, that should advance civilization by intercourse with foreigners and familiarity with their point of view, and readiness to adopt whatever is best and most suitable in their ideas, manners, and customs

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.

I was born in London! I'm as Western as you get.

Western man represents himself, on the political or psychological stage, in a spectacular world-theater. Our personality is innately cinematic, light-charged projections flickering on the screen of Western consciousness.

I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a fairly passionate defender of it.

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Let's put Coloradans in charge; let's put Westerners in charge of the West.

The alt-right believes that Western culture is currently imperiled and that the elites on both sides of the political divide are not doing enough to protect it. In that analysis, I think they're right.

We’re defending the West here … a certain notion of what man is.

It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.

When Manuel Valls says there's nothing to understand because "understanding is justifying," he echoes back to Georges W Bush's logic in 2001. When François Hollande says "they are attacking us because of who we are," what does it say about victims in Mali, Baghdad, Ivory Coast or Turkey?

The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.