If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are… — Anwar Ibrahim Copy Share Image
“There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you're not in Germany, you're not in Europe. And if you're not in Asia, you're nowhere. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There are many reasons that universities in East Asia have not reached the positions that they had hoped for. After all, we… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Asia Pacific is home to nearly half the world's population, a growing middle class and holds so much opportunity for us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We all have that capacity to lose our humanity when circumstances force us to do so. It's not specific to people who… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and… — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
“We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For years, overseas, the U.S. has been willing to not only tolerate what is in effect violent fascism, but implement it in… — Allan Nairn Copy Share Image
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations. — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia,… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan. — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
People have been tolerating their insane political system, in exchange for the countless privileges they are getting from their countries' plundering of… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Perhaps the strongest signal of reengagement with Southeast Asia was the U.S.'s accession to the Southeast Asian Treaty of Amity and Cooperation. — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
I thought it was cool how [ Riccardo Tisci] wanted to blend Africa and Asia because they relate to each other in… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
“Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery… — Harry Johnston Copy Share Image
Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image