A leader's first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty. — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I got introduced to Western music and it inspired me. One of my favourite bands is Pink Floyd. — Anupam Roy Copy Share Image
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The comic is today's western, so many movies, and I think that if actors want to optimize their longevity, it's important for… — Erin Gray Copy Share Image
It sometimes seems to me that some of our Western partners do not want Russia to fully recover. They would like Russia… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere... And what happens… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The criteria or the paradigm for us is not the West, not the Western paradigm, because the West has its own culture,… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made… — John Landis Copy Share Image
In the last years, I've been reading the Eastern fathers, the older mystical writings, a rich, deep, and truly traditional Christianity which… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened… — Camille Copy Share Image
When we speak of the origin of western democracy it's precisely here, in this territory that the modern definition of democracy first… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
In narrative cinema, a certain terminology has already been established: 'film noir,' 'Western,' even 'Spaghetti Western.' When we say 'film noir' we… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain… — Leonid Feodorov Copy Share Image
Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very… — Charles Kimbrough Copy Share Image
Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well. — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity. — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place. — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
I use the old Strathmore vellum surface paper, which is the best paper you can get in the Western world for ink… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it. — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
