Arbitrary Quote by John Ralston Saul

For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because,…

— Martin Jacques

There are times when we need to think beyond business and look at preserving culture and languages.

— Rockline Venkatesh

“No doubt Western modernity has its limitations and discontents. Still, it is far better than the known alternatives—not only, or even primarily, because of…

— Rodney Stark

But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that…

— Amartya Sen

We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.

— Atul Gawande

“The "west"-what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with…

— Emil Cioran

We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species. We have…

— Maude Barlow

On the one hand the world is getting more integrated and we should not dismiss social values as "Western" when they are actually modern…

— Zhang Xin

The criteria or the paradigm for us is not the West, not the Western paradigm, because the West has its own culture, we have…

— Bashar al-Assad

“As with our earlier worship of saints and facts, there is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of…

— John Ralston Saul

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

— Gregory David Roberts

The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The…

— Claude Levi-Strauss