Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Even the implication that The Lord of the Rings is a mythic story about Western, white supremacy - regardless of the political… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged. — Neil Abercrombie Copy Share Image
It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There was something intrinsically sad about Shinjuku. A vacuum-packed hollowness that no quantity of neon could hide. Roppongi was the same, only… — Jon Courtenay Grimwood Copy Share Image
Every religion, Eastern and Western, has the same archetype of benevolent guides in Heaven helping us, whether they are called bodhisattvas, deities,… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place.” — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical… — Robert Linssen Copy Share Image
Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to… — Michio Kaku 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
What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
I have a theory that among the large Western companies (mostly American) the higher an executive is promoted, the more wisdom is… — Masaaki Imai Copy Share Image
“In the distance, he could see a large star made out of red and green lights on the side of a barn,… — B.J. Daniels Copy Share Image
I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven’t seen nobody, you’re actually saying that you have seen somebody.” — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When I took on the title sponsorship of the Western European League and the World Cup Final in October 2010, I did… — Reem Acra Copy Share Image
The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
