Able Quote by John Gimlette

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

The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!

— Diana Vreeland

We need to stop imitating the West and looking there for inspiration.

— Ananya Panday

“In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“I find that the hardest work in the world—it may in fact be impossible—is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is…

— Marilynne Robinson

Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and…

— Anonymous

The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought…

— Eric Hoffer

The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser…

— Kallistos Ware

President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact…

— Ben Shapiro

There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on…

— Arca

But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego is the…

— Rajneesh

“While the West tends to medicate pain, the East helps us to embrace it.”

— Dave Gibbons