Term Quote by Ralph Peters Download Open image “We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.” — Ralph Peters ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Term World
So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I do think that Americans do not understand that things are done differently in other parts of the world and that the other ways… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of… — Tom Freston Copy Share Image
Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble. — Nguyen Cao Ky Copy Share Image
I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military. — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory. — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
Our president seems determined to do anything he can with the Russians and the Russians hate - but a report and hates us. He… — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
There is no lack of bravery in the ranks of our armed forces, but bureaucratic cowardice rules in our intelligence establishment (as well as… — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam for terrorism cripples our efforts to protect innocent Muslims. Terrified of… — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred. — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
“A soldier’s duty…” Taylor intoned the last word in a voice of granite, “is to do an honest day’s work in dishonest times… and… — Ralph peters Copy Share Image
“Our history deserves honesty and our citizens need it. Without understanding who we really were, we’ll never quite grasp who we have become, leaving… — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals. — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of… — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
“the Confederacy had been poisoned by more jealousies than a hundred high-bred gals could muster in competition for a single male.” — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over… — John H. Sununu Copy Share Image
When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
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