Behind Quote by Noam Chomsky

In the West, people pride themselves on being the defenders of democratic rights and the champions of freedom. But if the Western world really…

— Nirmala Srivastava

It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as…

— William Pfaff

The Western media is a Ministry of Truth that operates full-time in support of the artificial existence that Westerners live inside The Matrix where…

— Paul Craig Roberts

“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

...the West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of whom congregate in government.

— Ilana Mercer

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

We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as…

— Kevin Costner

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

“The expansionary dynamic of Western culture has been the root, the denominating constant, of modern history. The grandeur of Western liberalism, its material abundance,…

— Carl Oglesby

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

— Chogyam Trungpa

“To a Western observer, schooled in the theory and practice of Western freedom, it is precisely the lack of freedom—freedom of the mind from…

— Bernard Lewis

Long a student and admirer of the American West, its history, its art, its culture, its cast of personalities, I'm aware that in the…

— Philip Anschutz