“Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.” MomentsCultureThreeConsciousnessChristianityStageIdealsClaimsWesternSupremeSocialismPrimitiveTranscendenceWestern CultureBlackmailMonotheismSinaiIbsen Author:George Steiner
“Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it.” CountryEnjoyKnownDoubtExpressionClaimsRegardRaisesWestWesternJewDenyMythBillionsHolocaustFreedom Of ExpressionSanctityMassacres Author:Ali Khamenei
“The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background.” ShowsCertainClaimsWesternContraryBackgroundsStatementsAbsurdOfficialsLackingAbsurdityWesternersImpetuous Author:Hamid-Reza Assefi
“We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our own lines, unembarrassed by what Western civilisation has to teach us and unhampered by the institutions which the West has imposed.” LinesTeachDestinyClaimsInstitutionsWestWesternIndividualityEvolveCivilisation Author:Chittaranjan Das
“If some Western politician claims he is in a position to use the normal Western methods to feed and clothe 1.2 billion Chinese, we would be happily prepared to elect him president of China.” IfsUseWould BePresidentPositionPoliticianNormalClaimsMethodPreparedWesternChinaBillionsChinese Author:Li Peng
“This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of your life in the interests of 'keeping you safe.' ... On the other hand, when it comes to 'keeping you safe' from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing. ... It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon. This is the biggest abdication of responsibility by the Western powers since the 1930s.” RealHandsGovernmentAmericaCertainNationsInterestPerfectResponsibilitySafeAspectUniversalClaimsThreatWestWesternAlliesTwilight1930sSnapshotsJurisdictionTehranTheocracyNukesAbdicationDeveloped Nations Author:Mark Steyn
“In order for the second scenario to win, the world would have to return where the struggle for independence and against Western colonialism and imperialism was lost or abandoned more than 50 years ago. Let's face it: the world was never really completely de-colonized. It would be total hypocrisy to claim otherwise.” WorldYearsWould BeFacesOrderWinningLostStruggleReturnYears AgoClaimsIndependenceWesternHypocrisyAbandonedColonialismImperialismScenarios Author:Andre Vltchek
“If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early 1960s the State Department described the threat of Cuba as Castro's successful defiance of US policy, going back to the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine established the US claim to dominate the Western hemisphere and Castro was successfully defying that. That's not tolerable. It is like somebody saying "let's have democracy in Greece," and we just can't tolerate that so we have to destroy the threat at its roots.” IfsLooksStatesDemocracySuccessfulPolicyRootsClaimsThreatWesternDoctrineDepartmentInternalsTolerateDocumentsGreece1960sCubaDefianceCastroTolerableHemisphereDefyingMonroe Doctrine Author:Noam Chomsky
“My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was heavily influenced by that. But, I also was, and still am, convinced by the Catholic churches historical claims to represent the continuity with the early Church that other forms of Western Christianity lack.” StillsFormMotherForceChurchBehindsChristianityClaimsCatholicHistoricalWesternConvincedDrivingOur FamilyContinuityCatholic ChurchDriving Force Author:Ross Douthat
“What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion is the fact that the patron saint of modern liberalism, John Stuart Mill, thought that barbarian peoples like the Indians were unfit for self-rule.” HumansMadeSelfFactsHappensCompassionModernDignityClaimsWesternSaintToleranceIdeologyLiberalismBarbariansMillsHuman DignityPatronModern Liberalism Author:Pankaj Mishra