Critical Quote by Fatema Mernissi

To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people…

— Barack Obama

The West is anything but altruistic.

— Paul Kagame

Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

— G. I. Gurdjieff

I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.

— Liu Xiaobo

I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.

— Pierre Trudeau

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

— Amelia Barr

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is…

— Richard Gere

I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.

— Marilynne Robinson

I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to…

— Leonid Feodorov

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led…

— Liu Xiaobo

That the whole world is not the West and that there are other ways of doing things, whether it's eating, seeing or valuing life.

— Paterson Joseph

The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

— Silvia Cartwright