“There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.” ShareNew YorkSeriousRegardWesternComicElsewhereProposalResidence Book:Complete Stories Source: Complete Stories
“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 rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance on the rule of law clearly played a major role in transforming Western society from a world in which the ordinary citizen was literally subject to the arbitrary will of his master to a world in which the ordinary citizen could regard himself as his own master” WorldWellsDoeLawRolesSubjectsMastersCitizensMajorsOrdinaryRegardWesternGuaranteesArbitraryRelianceTransformingRule Of LawWestern SocietyOrdinary Citizens Book:There's no such thing as a free lunch Source: There's no such thing as a free lunch
“Quite frankly, I have to admit that with regard to the enormous financial assets and funds of Russian leaders in Western banks and on stock markets, the chances for the West to exert influence on Russia are quite low. I doubt that Western leaders are willing to exert pressure. I would not exclude an intervention in case of a crisis.” ChanceLeaderCasesDoubtInfluenceWillingLowsPressureRegardCrisisWestWesternFinancialRussiaEnormousFundAssetsIntervention Author:Garry Kasparov
“The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some Western countries including the United States, but the only option that we have in that regard is to win.” StillsCountryStatesCoursesWinningUnitedUnited StatesSupportBasesArmyRegardWesternIncludingTerroristTurkeysAdvancementArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisQatar Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I never violate an inner rhythm. I loathe to force anything. I don't know if the inner rhythm is Eastern or Western. I know it is essential for me. I listen to it and I stay with it. I have always been this way. I have regards for the inner voice.” IfsKnowsWayForceVoiceEssentialsRegardWesternIntuitionRhythmEasternInner VoiceLoathe Book:Lee Krasner Source: Lee Krasner
“My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.” PeopleMenWorldCountryShowsTodayPoliticalOpportunityPoliticsFreedomLibertyDemocracySittingWeakFunctionTwentiesRegardWesternNotionStrongestVillageFascismWorld TodayPatronizingTrue Democracy Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.” MenTwoFactsMightDemocracyHappenedPossibilityCommunicationDevelopmentIndustryMassConcernedUniversalAccountsInfiniteRegardPressesWesternBeing TruePropagandaAppetiteDistractionCapitalistIrrelevantLiteracyUnrealFree PressBrave New World FreedomMass Communication Book:Brave New World Revisited Source: Brave New World Revisited
“With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. In an industrial community this propensity for emulation expresses itself in pecuniary emulation; and this, so far as regards the Western civilized communities of the present, is virtually equivalent to saying that it expresses itself in some form of conspicuous waste.” SelfFormCommunityEconomicWasteRegardInstinctWesternMotiveExceptionCivilizedStrongestPreservationPersistentSelf PreservationPropensityEmulation Author:Thorstein Veblen
“In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.” YearsPastCultureRightsCriticismRegardIslamWesternOfficialsIslamicIranRegimesWomens RightsBrutalityIranian Author:Azar Nafisi