“Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.” StatesInvolvedConflictConstitutionWesternGet Involved Author:Daniel Pipes
“In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.” ThinkingNeedsFormCultureFictionConflictCreatingScience FictionWesternAliensRobotsSuspiciousHubrisWestern CultureCreating Something Author:Cynthia Breazeal
“The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and conflicts that give life to drama, you don't have it.” IfsGivingTryingBookCharacterStoriesMaterialsDramaConflictOvercomingHorseWesternGenreBootsRidingJumpingScreenplaysGenre Is Author:Clint Eastwood
“Free trade holds much of the blame for continued international conflict. Markets are said to possess wisdom that is somehow superior to man. Those of us in business who travel in the developing world see the results of such western wisdom and have a rumbling disquiet about much of what our economic institutions have bought into.” MenWorldSaidResultsEconomicConflictInstitutionsBlameTradeWesternInternationalSuperiorsDevelopingGlobalizationFree Trade Author:Anita Roddick
“Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film 'noir', as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white.” FilmWhiteQualityConflictWesternMoodSettingSettingsDefinedGenreToneSubtleGrayConventionsGangstersNoirFilm Noir Author:Paul Schrader
“The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.” WorldConflictWesternRootedPalestineMistrustWestern World Author:Ismail Haniyeh
“As an observer, you can clearly see that Western countries are war-weary and don't want to be pulled into new conflicts. They always proclaim their will to fight for Israel in an emergency. That's good but what if that's not at all true when the time comes?” IfsWantWarCountryFightingConflictWesternIsraelWhat IfWearyObserversEmergenciesWill To Fight Author:Ronald Lauder
“The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.” FirstsWarConflictWesternIraqIraq War Author:Noam Chomsky
“For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff I was taking about. In 1990-91, no Russian hordes. Okay, what happens? Well there are actually visions of the future system that were presented. One was [Mikhail] Gorbachev. He called for a Eurasian security system, with no military blocs. He called it a Common European Home. No military blocs, no Warsaw Pact. Just an integrated security system with no conflicts.Now the other vision was presented by George Bush, this is the "statesman".” KnowsYearsWellsStatesHomeHappensStuffCommonVisionHeardSecurityMilitaryConflictEuropeOkaySlaveWesternFiftyStatesmenIntegratedNatoPactHordeWestern EuropeVisions Of The FutureGorbachevSecurity SystemsWarsawWarsaw Pact Author:Noam Chomsky
“What I tried to show is that this idea of this fundamental conflict between savagery and civilization goes back to the very beginnings of Western history. I go back to the Greeks, I go back to the Romans. You can read Homer. And of course Homer has his great heroes involved in this myth, this wonderful mythic contest with savage tribal peoples, half-human monsters on distant parts of the world.” WorldWonderfulHeroConflictWesternMythGreekSavagery Author:Robert A. Williams, Jr.
“Turkey is currently seeking to make itself more independent from Europe and is turning to the east. Is that in our interest? Does it help us bolster Western values in Turkey, or at least here at home? Or are we making ourselves weaker overall? At the same time, Turkey is violating our European moral concepts. It's a difficult conflict to endure, and it leads to necessary disputes and debates.” HelpingHomeValuesDifficultInterestMoralConflictIndependentWesternEndureDebate Author:Sigmar Gabriel