T Quotes
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“The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.”
Source: An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir
“The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.”
Source: Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
“The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.”
Source: Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays
“The West has institutions that can punish the misconduct of individuals. What drove Rwanda and Africa into decline was the fact that certain people weren't held accountable. When we move to make corrupt mayors or officers answer to the courts, people always immediately say that we are repressive. But should we allow these people to continue to get away with it?”
“The West has largely privatized the internal life. We build expansive back decks and avoid our front porches. We con- nect only if it’s convenient and scheduled. We pull into the driveway, hit a button to open the garage door, and enter directly into our houses without any exposure to neigh- bors. The very nature of our architecture has reinforced the message of our internal detachment.”
“The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.”
“The West has never been all of the world that matters. The West has not been the only actor on the stage of modern history even at the peak of the West's power (and this peak has perhaps now already been passed)... It has not been the West that has been hit by the world; it has been the world that has been hit - and hit hard - by the West.”
“The West has no idea of the human and economic costs imposed on it by the mere existence of dictatorship in the world.”
“The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter we have done that will we be ready to integrate with Europeand Europe needs Russia.”
“The West has political prisoners.”
“The west has systematically peddled
morons and monkeys as kings heroic,
white suffering is human suffering, while
the colored belong on national geographic.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.”
Source: Collected Works
“The West hasn't been naïve, it has been patronizing the South by imposing its own views on what should be done - ironically after having been so close and so supportive of dictators who were not respecting the people.”
“The West in its modern form since 1945 is a miracle, and that`s in our American interests. It`s its good that the West is strong and at peace, and we should want more of that, not less.”
“The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he is not much inclined to believe in it. This comes from a piece of wisdom that his climate of eternal summer teaches him. It is that, under all the parade of human effort and noise, today is like yesterday, and tomorrow will be like today; that existence is a wheel of recurring patterns from which no one escapes; that all anybody does in this life is live for a while and then die for good, without finding out much; and that therefore the idea is to take things easy and enjoy the passing time under the sun. The white people charging hopefully around the islands these days in the noon glare, making deals, bulldozing airstrips, hammering up hotels, laying out marinas, opening new banks, night clubs, and gift shops, are to him merely a passing plague. They have come before and gone before.”
Source: Don't Stop the Carnival
“The west is a graveyard, where only the churches remain as tombstones of a civilization that once reached heaven.”
“The West is and will remain for years to come the most powerful civilization. Yet its power relative to that of other civilizations is declining. As the West attempts to assert its values and to protect its interests, non-Western societies confront a choice. Some attempt to emulate the West and to join or to "bandwagon" with the West. Other Confucian and Islamic societies attempt to expand their own economic and military power to resist and to "balance" against the West. A central axis of post--Cold War world politics is thus the interaction of Western power and culture with the power and culture of non-Western civilizations.
In sum, the post--Cold War world is a world of seven or eight major civilizations. Cultural commonalities and differences shape the interests, antagonisms, and associations of states. The most important countries in the world come overwhelmingly from different civilizations. The local conflicts most likely to escalate into broader wars are those between groups and states from different civilizations. The predominant patterns of political and economic development differ from civilization to civilization. The key issues on the international agenda involve differences among civilizations. Power is shifting from the long predominant West to non-Western civilizations. Global politics has become multipolar and multicivilizational.”
“The West is anxious about becoming another Africa, and it has dug deep moats in the hopes of preventing that, but it's too late: it has already become another Africa.”
“The West is anything but altruistic.”
“The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!”
Source: D.V.
“The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.”
“The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West is mind: the East is no-mind.”
“The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.”
Source: Good medicine: the illustrated letters of Charles M. Russell
“The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised.”
“The West is not in the West. It is a project, not a place.”
Source: Caribbean discourse: selected essays
“The West is supporting, even financing the right-wing media, it is financing 'the opposition', encourages capital flight of billions of dollars, works closely with the local 'elites' to create 'deficits', 'uncertainty' and despair. It creates corruption scandals, and it even supports fake 'left' anti-government movements. And of course it is training and corrupting some key military cadres.”
“The West is the place to gamble where you suffer and lose everything, even yourself, without any doubts.”
“The west is very concerned and actually afraid because the media is not informing them. There are too many moderate Muslims who are trying to whitewash the fears and concerns of the West. It's time for us to face reality - nobody is against Muslims. When I'm speaking about this situation, it's about Islamic doctrine. Islamic doctrine promotes violence and hatred against non Muslims. 60% of the Koran is dedicated to cursing and spreading hatred and violence against non-Muslims who are called 'Kaffir'.”
“The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.”
“The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can`t bring down God`s house.”
“The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.”
“The West pays money and piles up pressure to cause a strife between Islamic countries so that Muslims would kill each other and the West can obtain its desirable outcome thereby.”
“The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as a bond thrown by society round two people to unite them together for all eternity. Those two must wed each other, whether they will or not, in life after life. Each acquires half of the merit of the other. And if one seems in this life to have fallen hopelessly behind, it is for the other only to wait and beat time, till he or she catches up again!”
Source: Complete Works
“The West remains obsessed by the caste system.”
“The West’s adversarial political system, in which all manner of decisions were made by majority rule, was little more than a refined version of civil war, replacing one form of coercion (fighting) with another (voting).”
Source: To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
“The West’s credibility as a reference for all things human rights related has waned and is now almost non-existent. The war on Gaza has cost them more than just weapons, it has set the West back hundreds of years and tarnished their image as the leaders of humanity.”
“The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.”
“The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights.”
“The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.”
“The West Sister Dating Rules were clear on the matter of apologies. On the evolutionary scale of dating, a guy who apologized solely for the sake of ending the argument and getting back into your good graces was on the level of primeval slime — especially if he was clearly doing so merely because he was hoping for sex. The proper response was to unveil the offender’s deceit by demanding he explain what exactly he was apologizing for, and then scorn him when he betrayed his ignorance.”
Source: Love for the Cold-Blooded, or The Part-Time Evil Minion's Guide to Accidentally Dating a Superhero
“The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.”
“The West...struggles with death, hidden away behind closed coffins and curtains, language of “sleep,” “passing away,” and “rest”—unconscious strategies to enable us to avoid the power of death over our lives.”
Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World
“The West to me is where the landscape is.”
“The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.”
“The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.”
“The West Wing and The Outsiders are the gifts that keep on giving.”
“The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
“The West would be well advised to change its approach towards failing states. At present, no major power can find the correct ways and means - and the numbers of failing states are increasing. This year we watched the collapse of Mali, a consequence of the Libyan civil war. The south of Libya and Mali, and Niger too, are well on the way to becoming a no-man's land. After 9/11, George W. Bush and Tony Blair made the promise that they would not tolerate failed states because they could become a haven for terrorists. And today? The number increases.”
“The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”
Source: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Picador Classic