Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all… — Arnon Goldfinger Copy Share Image
“By all the rules of modern fiction there should have been gunsmoke mingling its acrid blue with the brown haze of corral… — B.M. Bower Copy Share Image
This world - the Western world - has failed. We must have a plan B. We're the plan B. — Beppe Grillo Copy Share Image
It is tragic that so few young people in Western democracies vote. They have forgotten that their ancestors fought for the right… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery.… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely! — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I'm among the first girls ever to play Little League baseball, and to my knowledge, the very first in western Illinois. It… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
I think it's hard for people to suspend the era they live in and understand the decisions that had to be made… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Some of the colonizers do understand and quickly retreat, while some, because they are stupid, continue colonizing others, increasing the suffering, deaths,… — Siad Barre Copy Share Image
“Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
After attending a banquet honoring the 1974 BYU team that won the Western AthleticConference and went to the Fiesta Bowl. It was… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame are not normal, everyday malware, of course. All three of them were most likely developed by a Western… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
To the glistening Eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy, the Valiant. To the great Western Wood, King Edmund the Just. To… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools for theater.… — Alexander Koch Copy Share Image
To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Continuous wars - which we have now had since 2001 - starting with Afghanistan, continuing on to Iraq. And even since Iraq,… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
