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I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony of the…

— Rebecca Solnit

In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have…

— Richard M. Weaver

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is…

— Wallace Stegner

“That’s what imperialism is all about, shoving your language, religion, culture, and race down others’ throats and telling them that they’re beneath you –…

— M.B. Wilmot

“I thought about how we tilled and cultivated the land, planted trees on it, fenced it, built houses on it, and did everything we…

— Craig Johnson

“I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the…

— Sándor Márai

“This is clearly cultural imperialism, which explains why Western culture is, in fact, the sole (main) global culture. Yet, this is consistently disguised and…

— Sov8840

“When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.”

— Gerald W. Haslam

“It would also require a conscious effort to look at the world from unfamiliar standpoints and admit that the West has no monopoly on…

— Edward Luce

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

— Ameen Rihani

“The Northwest is essentially a national domain; it is fitting that it should be, as it is, not only by position but by feeling,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“For there is another truth: to the extent that other cultures have failed to adopt at least major aspects of Western ways, they remain…

— Rodney Stark