Confidence Quote by J.M. Roberts

“The twentieth century will be American. American thought will dominate it. American progress will give it color and direction. American deeds will make it…

— John dos Passos

“Why must people always assume we moderns knew more than any of the previous cultures? It simply isn't true, evidence proves otherwise.”

— Kathleen Baldwin

“Contrary to the central belief of multiculturalists, Western culture has achieved far more than other cultures in many significant spheres and has done so…

— Nicholas Wade

“The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in…

— Larry Herzberg

“For there is another truth: to the extent that other cultures have failed to adopt at least major aspects of Western ways, they remain…

— Rodney Stark

“From the point of view of the Chinese Communist Party, the greatest casualties of the Cultural Revolution were the Party’s prestige and its ability…

— Nien Cheng

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption…

— Martin Jacques

“The way I see it, the nineteenth century was a British century. The twenthieth century is an American century. I predict that the twenty-first…

— Adeline Yen Mah

“the twentieth century ran a series of experiments, imposing quite different institutions on two sets of Germans (in West and East), two sets of…

— Niall Ferguson

“... in traditional China the frequency of eating out was a fairly good indication of a person's rank in society.”

— Frederick J. Simoons

Do understand: Chinese people are brilliant; the West cannot fool them.

— Andre Vltchek

“The emergence of China is the most dramatic event in economic history. We are living in an age of convergence no less dramatic than…

— Edward Luce