Western Quotes
1229 Western quotes by 890 unique authors
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What's more, sharia finance is another tool of Islamic separatism; instead of assimilating into American society, Muslims are demanding, and receiving, parallel financial institutions that…
— Robert Spencer
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...what will be the outcome of this kind of thing? Holton predicts that "at best, the result could be Muslim enclaves in Western communities in…
— Robert Spencer
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In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western nations broke away…
— Marmaduke Pickthall
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The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate with him, it…
— Corinne Heline
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How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we…
— Thabo Mbeki
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The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear".
— J. P. McEvoy
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I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what…
— Terence McKenna
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The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men…
— Davis McCaughey
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The terrorists who have succeeded in carrying out spectacular attacks against Western targets in the past have been college-educated, technically proficient men who are capable…
— Peter Bergen
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If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.
— Ernest Hemingway
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My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.
— Marilyn French
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The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as…
— Catharine MacKinnon
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If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a…
— Howard Gardner
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Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism
— Nathan Rosenberg
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The idea that each individual has intrinsic, God-given value and is of infinite worth quite apart from any social contribution - an idea most pagans…
— Elaine Pagels
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The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it. They also understand…
— Samuel Ruiz
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It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern…
— Vaclav Havel
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There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.
— Ludwig von Mises
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I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had…
— Albert Einstein
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I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think that in the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of…
— Robert Muller
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Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could…
— Karl-Henrik Robert
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Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition…
— Thomas Jefferson
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