“Islamist-jihadist terrorism-a plague that has spread to almost every corner of the world-creates painful dilemmas for the peoples and decision makers who confront it. Its rapid, shape-shifting advance has sometimes confounded efforts to comprehend its origins, motives, and aims. Its sophistication in exploiting liberal values poses challenges and difficulties for the Western world, and for liberal democratic states in general, in attaining effective and balanced counter-terrorism policies.” WorldSometimesStatesValuesChallengesDecisionEffortPolicyShapesDifficultyAimDemocraticWesternPainfulCornersSpreadTerrorismMotiveMakersBalancedPlagueRapidsShiftingDilemmaSophisticationWestern WorldIslamistsDecision MakersCorners Of The WorldCounter Terrorism Author:Boaz Ganor
“For neo-conservatism is a quintessentially Jewish project: a re-sanctification in everyday life of the core values of western civilisation, and the achievement of human potential through virtuous practice. The neo-cons' crucial insight is that public signals through law, custom and tradition are the key to getting people to behave well. And that is a Jewish insight.” PeopleHumansWellsLawValuesPracticeKeysAchievementProjectsTraditionWesternEverydayInsightCoreBehaveCustomsCrucialVirtuousEveryday LifeSignalsConservatismCivilisationSanctificationHuman PotentialCore ValuesCustoms And Traditions Author:Melanie Phillips
“The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions, and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.” MenFeelsMomentsLife IsValuesAcceptingCasesCreativeHe ManBecomingWesternSatisfactionDependentFacultyFrustratedSymptomsNeuroticWorth LivingLife Is Not Worth LivingWestern Values Author:Paul Robeson
“We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.” ValuesWesternApologizingExceptionalismAmerican ExceptionalismWestern Values Author:Rick Perry
“Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.” AgeValuesFoundNumbersExpressionWesternVariousAlternativesFascismMarxismLegionAmerican ValuesEnamored Author:Dennis Prager
“The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships have contributed substantially to child abuse and to the prevalence of physical violence in Western civilization.... The religious system upon which our culture is based holds that pain, suffering and deprivation are moral and necessary to save one's soul and make one a 'good person.' The crucifixion and scourging of Christ are examples.” HumansChildrenPersonsSoulChristianPainSufferingValuesCultureChristReligiousPleasureMoralViolenceExampleCivilizationAbuseWesternPainfulScaryTraditionalChild AbuseGood PersonHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsDeprivationWestern CivilizationCrucifixionPain And PleasureMoral ValuesPhysical ViolencePain SufferingPainful Truth Author:James W. Prescott
“Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.” WorldReasonValuesWesternIntuitionEnormousRationalityWestern World Author:Shakti Gawain
“American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.” WaySeemsValuesCultureSexRaceEducationStreetsCivilizationInstitutionsWesternBentWestern Civilization Author:Ishmael Reed
“Muslims have been an almost entirely benevolent force in the 20th century. They did not wreak the havoc the Western powers wreaked on the world. They have not come anywhere near to the environmental degradation that we've done to the planet. So I think Muslims need to be seen in the proper light. They're mostly decent, hardworking people, people with deep family values, and they want to live in peace.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantNeedsHas BeensDoneLightValuesForceCenturyPlanetsEnvironmentalWesternDecent20th CenturyDegradationBenevolentFamily ValuesHardworkingHavocEnvironmental Degradation Author:Hamza Yusuf
“I know that previously I would not have dared to express myself so explicitly about so uncertain a matter. I can take this risk because I am now in my eighth decade, and the changing opinions of men scarcely impress me any more; the thoughts of the old masters are of greater value to me than the philosophical prejudices of the Western mind.” KnowsMenMindI CanMatterValuesOpinionGreaterRiskMastersPrejudicePhilosophicalWesternDecadesUncertainImpress Author:Carl Jung