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Been Quotes by Martin Jacques
- For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because, at…
- It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of the two leaders:…
- China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but a civilisation state. Whereas the…
- More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China…
- The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not…
- Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The west has been…
- While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that power…
- The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.
- In Formula One, the car can make a difference in a way that a driver cannot. Whereas Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna spent their early…
- The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After 1989, Russia was…
- There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There was the whopping…
- If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted…
- For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never been required to…
- The Internet has been seen in the West as the quintessential expression of the free exchange of ideas and information, untrammeled by government interference and…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour