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West 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…
- Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount…
- 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…
- 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…
- After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and…
- At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the…
- The reason why China forecasting has such a poor track record is that Westerners constantly invoke the model and experience of the West to explain…
- 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 West Quotes
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand… — Afrika Bambaataa
- And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to,… — Dave Barry
- I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside,… — Abu Bakar Bashir
- Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken… — Gary Bauer
- February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the… — Xavier Becerra
- It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was. — Buffalo Bill
- My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west. — Buffalo Bill
- I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go… — Ronald Biggs
- But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never… — Buffalo Bill