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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

— Beau Bridges

The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.

— Irakli Okruashvili

Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central…

— Lajos Kossuth

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

— Chogyam Trungpa

In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.

— Frederick Lenz

In the West, people pride themselves on being the defenders of democratic rights and the champions of freedom. But if the Western world really…

— Nirmala Srivastava

We are rather candid with them about the nature of their political processes and the state of development of their institutions, but they are…

— Colin Powell

Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the…

— Martin Jacques

We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly, many of…

— Michael Barone

Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us…

— Ruth Benedict

“It's amazing in Europe: Europe has become extraordinarily colonized culturally by the United States, to an extent that is almost unbelievable―Europeans aren't aware of…

— Noam Chomsky

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly…

— Joan Didion