Middle eastern Quote by Bernard Lewis

Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to outside money…

— Chrystia Freeland

Some people say that the West has a cruel history. These people also may see the achievements of Western countries - in terms of…

— Dalai Lama

“For years many in the oil-rich states argued that their enormous wealth would bring modernizations. They pointed to the impressive appetites of Saudis and…

— Fareed Zakaria

Western capitalism is a looting mechanism. It loots labor. It loots the environment, and with the transpacific and transatlantic 'partnerships,' it will loot the…

— Paul Craig Roberts

The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to ship ill-gotten…

— Thomas Pogge

We live in a society in the West, where, when men do violent things, they do them under orders. They are soldiers carrying out…

— Robert Fisk

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the…

— Lee R. Raymond

The West, in the form of American capitalism, is seen as having won, but people are beginning to offer alternatives again, sometimes in retrograde…

— Karan Mahajan

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which…

— Benjamin Franklin

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce…

— Swami Vivekananda

Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line.…

— Daniel Goleman

There are very few Westerns that have ever made really giant money.

— Sydney Pollack