Country Quote by Josiah Strong

From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.

— Bill McKibben

Demographics need not be destiny. The waning West became what it is not by out-breeding the undeveloped world. We were once great not because…

— Ilana Mercer

“Nothing is right and nothing is wrong. Evolution is cyclical. You also have to understand the West and East are only directions, not absolute…

— Ajay Chaturvedi

The world is nearly all parcelled out, and what there is left of it is being divided up, conquered and colonised.

— Cecil Rhodes

Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States, so fertile…

— Henry David Thoreau

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

— Anonymous

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we…

— Jared Diamond

There is a world elsewhere.

— William Shakespeare

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

— Fernand Braudel

Westward, ever westward.

— Henry Wells

The history of the world is smattered with peoples being removed from the land of their birth. None of them ever got their country…

— Maureen Lipman

“Most economic histories of the "world" not only omit most extra-European production and exchange (even most of that outside West Europe or even northwest…

— André Gunder Frank