“Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.” TwoHouseEnergyDependsGainsAimWestTreasureSouthernMineralsPersianPersian GulfSouthern Africa Author:Leonid Brezhnev
“Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.” WorldMovingThreeWaterFireImagineAirDependsElementsWestStableFourth Book:Eight and a half women Source: Eight and a half women
“Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants... In the West, it will take one with soul force equal to Gandhi's to change the prevailing dogma of ever increasing GNP. We may be forced to change our profligate ways some day, when the soil is depleted, the aquifers drained, the icecaps melted, and all the oil wells pumped dry. But the crisis will wait another fifty years or so; we'll leave those problems to a generation yet unborn.” WayWantNeedsYearsWellsMaySoulProblemForceWaitingGrowthGenerationsEconomicDependsCitizensEqualCapitalismCrisisConstantWestEnvironmentalOilDrySoilFiftySustainabilityDogmaFabricExpandingUnbornPrevailingDrainedNeeds And WantsSoul ForceAquifers Author:Philip Yancey
“We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This was one group where liberals didn't ask why there wasn't a more pleasing gender balance, because the Upper West Side is not fireproof. What happens in combat in some distant field is abstract to liberals, but they can understand the need to have strong, brave men in their fire department.” MenNeedsHappensAsksStrongSidesFireGroupsFieldsDependsHeroBalanceSafeBraveWestGenderAbstractCharacteristicsDepartmentCombatManlyBrave ManFiremanWest SideFire Department Author:Kate O'Beirne
“Just as some of the most ardent political ideologues in the West are young people, revolutionaries, the '60s generation, - in Islam some of the most religious people are the youngsters. But more important than that, the prophet - in his writings, in his traditions - and the Koran itself say that the Muslim youth are the ones whom the future depends on and that it's up to them to do the fighting.” PeopleWritingImportantYoungPoliticalFightingReligiousGenerationsYouthDependsTraditionWestIslamRevolutionaryProphetYoungstersArdentIdeologues Author:Michael Scheuer
“What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.” PeopleDependsWestSingersInvisibleSongwriters Author:will.i.am