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In Afghanistan this week, outnumbered Northern Alliance rebels on horseback defeated Taliban forces armed with tanks. Experts say the victory is just like the…

— Tina Fey

Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.

— Kenneth Kaunda

The psychic being and the mental being, Manomaya Purusha, are not the same. The psychic being is behind the mind, it is what the…

— Sri Aurobindo

“Among ourselves (Westerners), the people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forgo ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with…

— Bertrand Russell

Muslims, who have a completely different value system, come to the West, then they should accept that there are certain basic values in the…

— John Cleese

A youth with wings are the assurance of our nation's future. We must start to work right away and make progress so that; if…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and relationship of…

— Robert M. Utley

I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the…

— Robert Lacey

This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to…

— Joseph Campbell

The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions,…

— Pico Iyer

“To most Westerners, the Philippines suffers from a lack of exoticism. Simply put, Philippine culture is just too accessible. To a young Western backpacker,…

— Steven Martin

The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.

— Hamza Yusuf