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“Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.”

Ifs Country Matter Law Desire Choices Views Majority Intention West Iran Monopoly Benign Condescending

Author:Azar Nafisi

“The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries in this aspect is also a part of the research.”

Country Roles Focus Movement Changed Research Aspect West Western Islamic Secular Asian Asian Countries

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio Hearn], and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing their perceptions of the country and the whole relationship between East and West--between the barbarian and the civilized. The book is a tour de force.”

“But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?”

Country Remember West

Author:Walter de La Mare

“We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.”

People World Should Looks Country Sometimes Democracy Rights Sacrifice West China Tendencies Efficient Criticise Short Sighted Authoritarian Government

Author:Ai Weiwei

“I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily seemed a sensible thing to do. Pride in our country, respect for our armed services, a healthy appreciation for the dangers beyond our borders, an insistence that there was no easy equivalence between East and West--in all this I had no quarrel with Reagan. And when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, I had to give the old man his due, even if I never gave him my vote.”

Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“It is quite possible that China may reach the stages of socialism and communism considerably later than your countries in the West which are so much more highly developed economically.”

May Country Stage West China Socialism Communism

Author:Mao Zedong

“I have not the slightest doubt that the economic measures and the Socialist measures which one will find in countries of Eastern Europe, will become increasingly powerful against the uncoordinated, planless society in which the West is living at present.”

Country Powerful Doubt Economic Europe West Socialist Eastern Eastern Europe

Author:James Callaghan

“The Soviet Union's propaganda clearly wishes to use public opinion in this country to get the West to reduce its own arms while doing nothing themselves. In this way they would gain nuclear superiority. This is simply not on.”

Way Country Use Wish Opinion Arms Gains Unions West Nuclear Propaganda Soviet Superiority Soviet Union Public Opinion Doing Nothing

Author:James Callaghan

“Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that we do not demand of, say, China or Vietnam.”

Country Certain Demand Degrees West China Reasonable Latin Openness Vietnam Latin America Latin American

Author:Mark Falcoff

“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.”

Country Enjoy Known Doubt Expression Claims Regard Raises West Western Jew Deny Myth Billions Holocaust Freedom Of Expression Sanctity Massacres

Author:Ali Khamenei

“The people in our country and in America and in all West European countries, they have to gorge and guzzle so that they don't even start to think about the fact that we have something to do with Vietnam or what it might be about, OK?”

People Thinking Country Facts Might America West Our Country Vietnam European Countries Gorges

Author:Gudrun Ensslin

“Palestine was the West Point and Annapolis for the world. In that little country God was training up a people out of whom, when the fullness of the time should come, His gospel cadets should emerge, fitted by all the training of all their national history for going out among the heathen and proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ.”

People World Should Littles Country Christ Training West Missions Riches Going Out Palestine Fullness Heathen Proclaiming West Point Cadets Annapolis

Book:Moses the Law-giver

Source: Moses the Law-giver

“There is one rule for the G-7 (richest countries) and another for the South. The G-7 now preaches open economies and liberalization, as well as 'good governance' and 'transparency'. Yet none of these things was conspicuous when the West grew rich.”

Wells Country Economy Rich Grew West South Governance Transparency Good Governance

Book:The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty

Source: The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty

“The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to enrich their countrymen, the 'Turks' were in the usual Mediterranean business of slave-raiding - and now the English were the victims. The West Country men suffered the heaviest, and did not appreciate the irony. The Newfoundland fishery, dominated by Devon ports, lost at least 20 ships in 1611 alone.”

Men Country Home Lost Attitude Changed Appreciate Victim Slave West Ships Irony Patriotic Usual Pirate Port Arrivals Countrymen Devon Fisheries Raiding

Author:Nicholas Rodger