Western State may refer to:
- Western State (Nigeria), a former state in Nigeria
- Western State Conference, a sport association of California community colleges
- Western State College of Colorado
- Western State University College of Law
- Missouri Western State University
Famous quotes containing the words western and/or state:
“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.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
“We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)