Born Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were…

— Samuel P. Huntington

As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little…

— Jung Chang

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other religions were…

— Oliver Stone

As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the…

— Vladimir Sorokin

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No matter where…

— Terri Runnels

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the…

— Adolf Hitler

To think that the heritage of the West, including post-war liberalism, was a selfish, secular, practical arrangement of politics is a fiction.

— Ben Domenech

The West is anything but altruistic.

— Paul Kagame

“There are several dubious assumptions about the early West. One is that it was the home of intractable self-reliance amounting to anarchy, whereas in…

— Wallace Stegner

“The West is a civilization that has survived all the prophecies of its collapse with a singular stratagem. Just as the bourgeoisie had to…

— The Invisible Committee

We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.

— Moe Howard