In countries where democracy is either non-existent or in development, on the other hand, citizens crave those freedoms. Maybe that is one… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
I just find it absolutely amazing that the narrative about this situation is not put out publically in the press, because it… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The butchering may continue as it will, it shall remain the historical guilt of the Western powers that they did not promptly… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western… — Cynthia Breazeal Copy Share Image
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every time someone does a Western movie, people flock to it. It's like, we're continually programming to people who are least likely… — Edward Allen Bernero Copy Share Image
Today, practically every country outside the West is undergoing an intellectual, political, and cultural churning, from China to Bolivia, Egypt to Indonesia,… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Production Code of… — David Milch Copy Share Image
The rise of the prosperity gospel is one of the great challenges to the true message of Jesus Christ. While not an… — Ed McBain Copy Share Image
I actually thought that the idea of doing a World War II movie in the guise of a spaghetti western would just… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just… — Maya Beiser Copy Share Image
The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of… — Dean Radin Copy Share Image
Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Everywhere you look - Britain, the States, western Europe - people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake - a… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty,… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Bloomberg TVThe one thing I think is likely to happen under either candidate is massive fiscal stimulus. You have so many voters… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The bad news is that Iran wants to talk about everything except their nuclear program. They want to talk about regional cooperation,… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
China reformed its state sector before, in the late 1990s. Tens of millions were laid off at the time. That was scary… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
“Well, I'll tell you, Mr. Graff-' 'Not Graff,' the big man snapped, looking annoyed. 'The name is Garff-Garff!' 'Say, that's good,' the… — Joe Millard Copy Share Image
I think you try to extrapolate from the early civilizations and cultures of the continent, kind of looking for unique ways they… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being,… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Canada has become trouble recently ... It's always the worst Americans who go there ... We could have taken them over so… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Despite everything, every piece of Alaska sang to me. I remembered every curve in the trails, every tree in the forest. It… — Summer Lane Copy Share Image
