Best Westerners Quotes

38 Westerners quotes by 32 unique authors

Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead,… — Derrick Jensen
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized… — Samuel P. Huntington
Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history… — Samuel P. Huntington
So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded… — Derrick Jensen
The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose… — Amy Chua
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
What made al Qaeda retrieve the doctrine of militant jihad, and Breivik the ideas of crusade and reconquest, is a sense of siege. So, we… — Mustafa Akyol
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… — Martin Jacques
Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting… — Noreena Hertz
After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between… — Abdolkarim Soroush
At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction… — Ernest Thompson Seton
Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness. — Jack Kornfield
I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules;… — Robert Lacey

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