"While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power,……" — Martin Jacques
"While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that power begins to ebb, then the morality of its actions will be the subject of growing scrutiny and challenge."
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Martin Jacques
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76 Quotes by Martin Jacques
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The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of…
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For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other…
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Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the…
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The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must…
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Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality:…
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More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless…
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
— Red Auerbach
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which…
— Teresa of Avila
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
— Abigail Adams
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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
— Abu Bakr
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
— John Quincy Adams
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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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