Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests.… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
The type of Buddhist practices that I talk about in 'The Art of Happiness' have to do with reconditioning one's way of… — Howard Cutler Copy Share Image
If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
In one way I would like to teach, but I have no qualifications to teach Westerners. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Westerners think that all that is negative and positive is only caused from outside of themselves. They materialize and externalize their experiences,… — Thinley Norbu Copy Share Image
When I'm wandering around the Himalayas, most of the people that I see are Westerners from Germany, California, or the Netherlands, who… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Islamic ethics is based on 'limits and proportions,' which means that the answer to an offensive cartoon is a cartoon, not the… — Amir Taheri Copy Share Image
The pirates are serving a purpose right now. They come from regions which have been completely ignored, and Westerners have tried to… — K'naan Copy Share Image
I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval… — Mahesh Bhatt Copy Share Image
With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries…What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If the earth were flat from east to west, the stars would rise as soon for westerners as for orientals, which is… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
We are living in a culture that if you criticize immorality you could be branded as a "bigot". I am going to… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
In Buddhism we don't really believe in sin and salvation as Westerners would define them. We believe in the limitless possibilities of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Oftentimes Westerners don't really understand fully the values of this particular culture. And I think the jury is still out as to… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Perhaps Westerners are in a better position to practice true renunciation than uneducated Orientals because most Western people, by the time they… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The Jews caused us a great injustice, the greatest injustice. They have expelled our people, stolen our land, shed our brothers' blood,… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I think in Baghdad, any westerner, journalist or not, has a big dollar sign on his or her forehead. So, first and… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a large house, a great ‘world house’ in which we have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
