Affirming Quote by Terri Runnels

The criteria or the paradigm for us is not the West, not the Western paradigm, because the West has its own culture, we have…

— Bashar al-Assad

For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because,…

— Martin Jacques

Someone might say about a person, "Oh, they are a 'Westerner." But who are Westerners? Greek, Bulgarian, German, English, Scandinavian, Spanish, American, Latin. All…

— Burhan Sonmez

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led…

— Liu Xiaobo

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is…

— Richard Gere

“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

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

— Gore Verbinski

“Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in the affairs…

— Jackson Spielvogel

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

— Ameen Rihani

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for…

— Ludwig von Mises

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false;…

— Samuel P. Huntington

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