A leader's first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty. — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before. — Eric Rohmer Copy Share Image
A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I was told that The Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa],… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Still I have been invited I don't know how many times to Turkey, where Turkey has been following very quickly in the… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No… — Terri Runnels Copy Share Image
The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Even into the 20th century, women were still struggling in the Western world for rights that Islam had granted women in the… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline… — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin… — Justo L. Gonzalez Copy Share Image
My generation those who were students in the late 60s was always, in the words of the Who, talking about our generation.… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
It is always amusing to me and delightful of course that my books sell so well in America and other parts of… — Tim Winton 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
When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude.… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy. — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
Central and western Pennsylvania has one of the best workforces in the country and this will provide job training, new skills and… — Bill Shuster Copy Share Image
“You stand there, braced. Cloud shadows race back over the buff rock stacks as a projected film, casting a queasy, mottled ground… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
