Behinds Quote by Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to…

— Francois Mitterrand

Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on…

— Vaclav Klaus

The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is…

— Wallace Stegner

The West in its modern form since 1945 is a miracle, and that`s in our American interests. It`s its good that the West is…

— Daniel Fried

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and…

— Vladimir Putin

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

— Ameen Rihani

We are rather candid with them about the nature of their political processes and the state of development of their institutions, but they are…

— Colin Powell

During the Cold War, the West was extremely careful not to allow the gap between the rich and poor to widen too far, first…

— Heinrich August Winkler

“Differing historical perspectives inevitably shape attitudes towards globalization and its sub-plots. The Western view of globalization has always been just that: a view based…

— Stephen D. King

In the West, people pride themselves on being the defenders of democratic rights and the champions of freedom. But if the Western world really…

— Nirmala Srivastava

The crisis of Western values has many aspects, many faces. There is a decline in faith in liberal democracy, a loss of confidence in…

— Anne Applebaum