ISIS is a virulent, nasty organization that has gained a foothold in ungoverned spaces effectively in Syria and parts of western Iraq.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For seven years I wrote and published my texts on the Internet and no Arab festival invited me and no Arab publishing… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
Everytime someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
“...'Well, I think of you as a straight shooter, Sheriff, but one who can't stop lustin' after the goddamn ineffable.' "She said… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was… — Otis Rush Copy Share Image
What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by the conflict… — Ed Kashi Copy Share Image
US law and international human rights law have radically diverged in the past years in terms of the recognition of indigenous people's… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
My nation faces a fundamental challenge - survival. The regime is more threatened than ever before. My forefathers had it easy. The… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
Ennio Morricone is royalty. He doesn't really do this a lot and Quentin brought him back [in Hateful Eight]. Quentin [Tarantino] basically… — Bun B Copy Share Image
All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The Chinese central government will slowly and steadily lose authority while regional armies [gain power]. The Western powers are going to take… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
Gone is any mention of American exceptionalism. I happen to believe that twice, three times in the 20th century, the United States… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all… — Abu Bakar Bashir Copy Share Image
it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of… — Santha Rama Rau Copy Share Image
That's how it works in Westerns: the hero is minding his own business and trying to make a living, but he does… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
With some reservation, it can be said that certain democratic elements are present in Georgia as well; but it is very clear… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I'd like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through… — Andrew Forrest Copy Share Image
I love bowl games. I really do. I like it more than the kids do. I grew up a poor kid in… — Barry Alvarez Copy Share Image
I find a difference between what gets called world music - a fusion of western music and music from different cultures in… — Glenn Kotche Copy Share Image
There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
More than a billion women around the world want to emulate western women's lifestyles and are rapidly acquiring the material ability to… — Louise Burfitt-Dons Copy Share Image
The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I don't think I can put my finger exactly on when remission occurred, because from that moment on, I left Western medicine… — Brad Willis Copy Share Image
“[Tuco is in a bubble bath. The One Armed Man enters the room.] One Armed Man: I've been looking for you for… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity,… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album… — Langdon Winner Copy Share Image
“The sun glanced off a long, wicked looking knife in the Comanche's grip. At least Cash wouldn't have long to mourn. The… — Lori Handeland Copy Share Image
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“In the moral realm, there is very little consensus left in Western countries over the proper basis of moral behavior. And because… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image