American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
When I returned to Russia in 1994, the Western world and its states were practically being worshipped. Admittedly, this was caused not… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss… — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. The industrial civilization of the Western world has no intent to destroy… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc.… — Dick Ebersol Copy Share Image
The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, there were less than 3 billion people on the earth, closer to 2 billion. By… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The modern Western world is in many ways a sustained attempt to deal with the unintended and unwanted problems related to the… — Brad Stephan Gregory Copy Share Image
I think in the Western world we have gotten overly identified with doing, and we've kind of forgotten about the art of… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
I said I didn't respect religion... and anyone who believes in fairy tales to answer questions that we can't answer... So I… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
In a safe Western world where we're not being shot at and we're not starving, the worst thing that happens to us… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
I think the Arab world has no personality cult situation going on that they have in much of the Western world, South… — Alexander Siddig Copy Share Image
The struggle for independence here has been conducted in equal measure by men and by women. And when we got our independence,… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is true that a large percentage of the Western world hopes that I am imprisoned or dead. But all my people,… — Abu Abbas Copy Share Image
I've been through the whole western world, and it seems to me that there's more retail floor space devoted to the sale… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Right now we're in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the… — Sandy Duncan Copy Share Image
I have been criticized for pointing out that anarchism is likely to flourish more easily, at least in the western world, and… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Athens, or Greece in general, was a virile world; like the Roman Empire. But I can't understand the idea that it is… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
It's not going to be a straight upward progression, but there's no doubt that consciousness is growing. Prejudices die regularly in the… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
If I can only live to see the American union firmly fixed, and free governments well established in our western world, and… — George Mason Copy Share Image
It amazes me that some people who ordinarily can recognize autocratic bullying, tacky sloganeering, and - especially - camp value are unable… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Sitting on the back of my motorbike going from west to east through Mongolia was one of the most inspiring and awesome… — Charley Boorman Copy Share Image
The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple… — Tommy Franks Copy Share Image
A lot of people are very frustrated. On the outside I am a woman, but how much am I also a man… — Pernille Fischer Christensen Copy Share Image
In the West, people pride themselves on being the defenders of democratic rights and the champions of freedom. But if the Western… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
President Murabak has been a U.S. ally for decades. He was a guarantor of some degree of peace in the Middle East… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
The Western world is in danger, and it is in danger because those who are supposed to have to defend the values… — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
