Chance Quote by Stefan Heym

The East was no longer a threat to the western world, and when there's nothing to fear we turn our backs, we look elsewhere.…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to…

— Tehyi Hsieh

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

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is…

— Wallace Stegner

“Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks. People go west when all bets are off:…

— Karen Hines

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

— Ameen Rihani

They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and spheres of…

— Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

When the Iron Curtain fell, all of the West rejoiced that the East would become just as free as the West. It was never…

— Rick Falkvinge

“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

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

— Anonymous

The West is anything but altruistic.

— Paul Kagame

That the whole world is not the West and that there are other ways of doing things, whether it's eating, seeing or valuing life.

— Paterson Joseph