Benevolence Quote by Nirmala Srivastava

It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of…

— Ibn Warraq

In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.

— Frederick Lenz

“The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many forms -…

— David F. Ford

I think that in the West, many citizens, especially younger citizens, take their freedoms and institutions for granted and focus on their frustrations with…

— Kofi Annan

The West hasn't been naïve, it has been patronizing the South by imposing its own views on what should be done - ironically after…

— Tariq Ramadan

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first…

— Bashar al-Assad

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of…

— Noam Chomsky

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

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

— Chogyam Trungpa

At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all society, all…

— Robert Kennedy

The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.

— Bashar al-Assad