“Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.” WayShowsValuesPolicyAspectWestWesternAdmirePollsWestern Values Author:Queen Rania of Jordan
“If you look in the Muslim World right now, the Shia, the Sunni Muslims are standing at the brink of a pit of fire started by Western intervention and influence in pitting them against each other by exploiting their divisions. So the stage is set for war in that area of the world that would destroy that area as completely as what they are calling the failed state Libya making Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq failed states.” IfsWorldLooksWarStatesFireInfluenceStageCallingRight NowAreasStandingWesternIraqDivisionAfghanistanSyriaInterventionPitsLibyaMuslim WorldShia Author:Louis Farrakhan
“We now have some years of very reliable polling by Western firms in the Islamic world, in multiple Islamic countries. And invariably, the question that asks, "Do you view U.S. foreign policy as an attack on Islam and Muslims?" is maxed out. Whether it's Jordan or Indonesia or Egypt, you get 80,85 percent of people saying "Yes."” PeopleWorldYearsCountryAsksViewsPolicyPercentIslamWesternFirmIslamicForeign PolicyMultipleEgyptIndonesiaJordanSaying YesPolling Author:Michael Scheuer
“The Western world doesn't really give enough credit to the importance in history of the Soviet invasion and the subsequent war in Afghanistan. For us it was a sideshow of the Cold War. For the Islamic world it was an unprovoked infidel invasion of a Muslim country not unlike Iraq.” WorldGivingWarCountryEnoughColdImportanceWesternIraqCreditIslamicAfghanistanSovietCold WarInvasionWestern WorldInfidelSideshows Author:Michael Scheuer
“Islam is a civilization that is fractured linguistically, ethnically, sectarian-wise, as ours is. What bin Laden has done, though, is to identify a number of issues that are tangible and visceral for Muslims. His indictment list of Western support for Arab tyranny, our ability to keep oil prices too low - at least until recently - our occupation of the Arabian Peninsula.” DoneAbilityNumbersSupportIssuesWiseCivilizationLowsIslamWesternOilListsTyrannyOccupationTangibleBin LadenVisceralArabianIndictmentPeninsulasOil Price Author:Michael Scheuer
“If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life.” IfsMaySchoolSpiritualPurposeCultureWaitingTechnologyFourApproachTraditionMethodWesternEverydayTechniquePsychologicalPeacefulWarriorThemePurpose Of LifeEveryday LifeEasternAbove And BeyondPeaceful Warrior Author:Dan Millman
“I wouldn't like to see Cuba change in other ways. And the trouble is when Fidel [Castro] does go - I am sure he will at some stage. He will probably be replaced by some sort of Western capitalism, ultimately.” WayDoeTroubleStageCapitalismWesternReplacedCubaCastro Author:John Gimlette
“In Western Civilization - America and Britain - if you see people talking and it becomes an argument and voices are raised, you are not surprised if violence follows. Hopefully it won't, but you are not surprised.” PeopleIfsAmericaVoiceTalkingViolenceCivilizationArgumentRaisedWesternHopefullyBritainWestern CivilizationPeople Talking Author:John Gimlette
“There are very few films that I've ever seen in my life that would be as silent or vacant as something like Jeremiah Johnson, and that to me was unbelievably captivating. You can see the same about [The Outlaw] Josey Wales: there's very little dialogue, and yet it contains such a deep, rich story. I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.” LittlesStoriesWould BeFilmRichSilentWesternDialogueStorytellingJohnsonOutlawWalesVacantCaptivatingJeremiah Author:Kiefer Sutherland
“Different influences at different times in my career, and some have stayed with me more, some less. Chester Himes. Ralph Dennis, who wrote a series called Hardman which is a big influence on the Hap and Leonard novels. Harlan Ellison, Philip Jose Farmer, Gerald Kersh, Fredrick Brown, Robert Bloch, and I'm just getting started. I read constantly. As for the epic Western, that's Paradise Sky.” DifferentBigsCareersNovelSkyInfluenceSeriesWesternParadiseBrownFarmersEpicDifferent TimesPhilipGetting Started Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.” HugeUniversalWesternCostumesWardrobe Author:Sally Field
“It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.” ImaginationEnemyWesternAdolph Hitler Author:Tariq Ali
“The U.S. is telling the Northern Alliance to kill Taliban prisoners. It's totally a breach of all the known conventions of war. Western television networks aren't showing this, but Arab networks are showing how prisoners are being killed and what's being done to them. Instead, we're shown scenes that are deliberately created for the Western media: a few women without the veil, a woman reading the news on Kabul television, and 150 people cheering.” PeopleWarDoneReadingKnownMediaTelevisionSceneNewsWesternPrisonerCheerConventionsVeilsAlliancesTalibanBeing DoneBreachKabulWestern Media Author:Tariq Ali
“The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of the African slave trade, so societies like ours, that is to say the western hemisphere, the Caribbean and so forth, we share a lot in common.” BlackWhiteCommonShareImportanceFundamentalsTradeSlaveWesternErasCaribbeanHemisphereDichotomyBlack WhiteSlave Trade Author:Nell Irvin Painter
“Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.” WorldRolesPeriodsWesternWestern World Author:Mitch Horowitz
“I think angels definitely offer all the imaginative possibilities that vampires do, and I think they've actually been popular in Western culture for longer than vampires have been. I hope they become a part of the culture again in a new way.” ThinkingWayHas BeensCulturePossibilityOffersAngelWesternVampireNew WaysImaginativeWestern Culture Author:Danielle Trussoni
“I actually thought that the idea of doing a World War II movie in the guise of a spaghetti western would just be an interesting way to tackle it. Just even the way that the spaghetti westerns tackled the history of the Old West, I thought it could be a neat thing to do that with World War II, but just as opposed to using cowboy iconography, using World War II iconography as kind of the jumping-off point.” WorldWayKindIdeasWarInterestingWestWesternThings To DoWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War ICowboyJumpingNeatGuiseSpaghettiInteresting WaysJumping OffIconographyOld WestSpaghetti Western Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Our colonizers have taught us to believe that our health has improved because of Western medicine, Western foods, and Western technology. In a society that values progress, our colonizers taught us that conditions in the world are perpetually improving, that with each new technological advancement, each new discovery, each new way to utilize resources, each new way to alter the environment, that the world is getting better, that it is advancing. These are all lies.” WorldWayBelieveLyingValuesTechnologyEnvironmentProgressConditionsTaughtDiscoveryResourcesMedicineWesternGet BetterNew WaysTechnologicalImprovingAdvancementAdvancingTaught UsNew DiscoveriesTechnological AdvancementWestern Medicine Author:Waziyatawin
“When terrorism is directly aiming at Western countries, it is automatically and abnormally enlarged in order to instill emotions and fear. However, when attacks happen in the Middle East, is it conveniently downplayed and less talked about. Unless they would benefit more from a heavy coverage.” CountryHappensOrderEmotionMiddleBenefitsWesternHeavyTerrorismEastMiddle EastCoverageInstill Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Still I have been invited I don't know how many times to Turkey, where Turkey has been following very quickly in the footsteps of what is sometimes referred to as the movement of cyber-dissidents. They have been training young people and also encouraging them to come into contact with western Muslims.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensStillsSometimesYoungKnow HowMovementTrainingWesternFollowingContactInvitedTurkeysFootstepsCyberDissidents Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I don't like this vision that Turkey is successful because it is as successful as the western powers in economic terms. But I do think they are trying to find a new space in the multi-polar world, and this is what I am advocating. I don't think that Muslims have an alternative model.” ThinkingWorldTryingTermSpaceVisionSuccessfulEconomicModelsWesternAlternativesTurkeysAdvocating Author:Tariq Ramadan
“It sometimes seems to me that some of our Western partners do not want Russia to fully recover. They would like Russia to be in a subdued state, and they want Russian resources to be used for the benefit of the U.S. economy.” WantSometimesStatesSeemsUsedEconomyBenefitsResourcesWesternPartnersRussia Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance.” WantHumansLeaderRightsWesternHuman RightsArroganceRomeViolationImpunityStatutes Author:Yoweri Museveni
“Of course there are collaborations. But in official meetings with Western diplomats from the US and the European Union, the major issues of our relationships are simply not discussed. The topics are on climate change or any other issues they want us to agree with them on. But they never discuss how we could develop an equal relationship. They should stop using pompous orchestrated summits and begin a serious dialogue with small meetings.” WantShouldCoursesIssuesSeriousEqualMajorsAgreeUnionsMeetingsClimateWesternClimate ChangeDialogueOfficialsCollaborationOur RelationshipTopicsWant USummitEuropean UnionDiplomatsPompous Author:Yoweri Museveni
“We do not accept the Western way of thinking that there are two ways of life. At the same time, the police (here) are not chasing gays. In Africa, sexuality is something very private, even for heterosexuals. Heterosexuals are not parading! But gays want to behave like exhibitionists.” ThinkingWayWantTwoAcceptingGayPoliceWesternSexualityBehaveChasingWay Of ThinkingTwo WaysExhibitionist Author:Yoweri Museveni
“As for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of our faith or tradition in a more human direction. That's the thing I spend my time doing.” HumansChristianityTraditionTasksWesternSymbolsPrimariesMy Time Author:John Shelby Spong
“What happened in the Western world was that Plato ceased to be the way people thought. Aristotle was rediscovered, and the modern, educated world moved toward Aristotelian thinking.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayHappenedModernMovedWesternEducatedPlatoWestern World Author:John Shelby Spong
“It's not going to be a straight upward progression, but there's no doubt that consciousness is growing. Prejudices die regularly in the Western world. We don't burn witches anymore.” WorldDiesConsciousnessDoubtGrowingPrejudiceWesternNo DoubtWitchProgressionWestern WorldStraight Up Author:John Shelby Spong
“In fact, in 1724 the Western world learned that women were co-creators of life that's when it was discovered that women had an egg cell.” WorldFactsWesternCreatorCellsEggsWestern World Author:John Shelby Spong
“The demolishment of the power of organized Christianity in the Western world to finally realize the emancipation of women and give them the vote in 1920. Women couldn't even own property in their own names until the last quarter of the 19th century in America.” WorldGivingLastsAmericaNamesRealizingChristianityCenturyVotePropertyWesternOrganizedQuarters19th CenturyEmancipationWestern World Author:John Shelby Spong
“There's one other interesting thing about Western democracy. It didn't arrive at the end point that Karl Marx thought it would that wealth would become more and more concentrated in the hands of the few, that eventually the few would be killed by the many who were deprived, and that a different kind of government would then develop. What happened in Western democracy is that we began to understand that a democratic system can't work if half of the people are starving and the other half are dieting.” PeopleIfsKindDifferentEndsHandsGovernmentWould BeWealthInterestingHalfDemocracyHappenedDemocraticWesternDifferent KindsDeprivedStarvingInteresting ThingsOther HalfDieting Author:John Shelby Spong
“We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits.” StrongSocialDemocracyShareSecurityTaxesUnionsWesternWorkersProfitIncomeOwnersContractsTemperSocial SecurityCompensationIncome TaxBusiness OwnersEquitableSocial Contract Author:John Shelby Spong
“I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and in the same ways that we find solutions to sustainability. Sustainability on environmental grounds and justice in terms of everyone having a place in the production and consumption system - these are two aspects of the same issue. They have been artificially separated and have to be put back again in the Western way of thinking.” ThinkingWayNeedsHas BeensTwoTermJusticeIssuesEconomicStageSolutionsAspectEnvironmentalWesternInjusticeProductionsSustainabilityConsumptionWay Of ThinkingBack AgainEconomic Injustice Author:Vandana Shiva
“In India, crossbreeding programs aimed at mimicking the milk yields of Western cows like the Jerseys and the Holsteins actually breed out the capacity of our animals to pull ploughs and pulley-cars. So, thanks to cross-breeding programs, we now have humpless cattle with no stamina.” AnimalCarCapacityProgramCrossesIndiaWesternThanksYieldMilkCowsJerseyBreedingCattleStaminaMimickingPulleys Author:Vandana Shiva
“I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our rice in India, with either vegetables or meat or whatever.) Before you know it, every common use of plants will be patented by a Western corporation.” KnowsWayUseCommonTakenIndiaPlantWesternCorporationsMeatVegetablesRicePatents Author:Vandana Shiva
“Under Bernie Sanders, Western workers would definitely do much better, but the rest of the world, the "wretched of the Earth" would still have to pay the bill.” WorldStillsEarthPayBillsWesternWorkersWretched Author:Andre Vltchek
“The Western public should learn and remember one essential thing about China: no matter what European and North American propaganda barks about the People's Republic, China is much more "democratic" than the West. It is democratic in its own way.” PeopleWayShouldMatterRememberEssentialsNo Matter WhatDemocraticWestWesternChinaPropagandaRepublicBark Author:Andre Vltchek
“Chinese people are thoroughly sick of Western imperialism.” PeopleSickWesternChineseImperialism Author:Andre Vltchek
“With Russia, it is almost similar to China: people there have had it up to here with the West! The Russian people suffered immensely from Western imperialism.” PeopleWestWesternChinaRussiaImperialism Author:Andre Vltchek
“Tens of millions of Russian people died, fighting all sorts of Western expansionism. They defeated Nazism. They helped to liberate much of our world from colonialism. Of course the West never forgave Russia for fighting the epic battles against its expansionism and colonialism.” PeopleWorldFightingCoursesMillionsBattleDiedWestWesternRussiaOur WorldColonialismDefeatedEpicNazismEpic Battle Author:Andre Vltchek
“I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.” ThinkingWorldPersonsTodayDifferencesMajorsWesternDenialDoomTranscendenceGloomWestern WorldDoom And Gloom Author:Marianne Williamson
“That is why Russia is hated. That is why China is hated. They are forming a tremendous, final defense line protecting humanity from the Western terror.” HumanityLinesWesternFinalsTerrorChinaDefenseRussiaHated Author:Andre Vltchek
“The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.” TryingDoneMiddleHistoricalWesternEastOccasionsMiddle EastFragmentsPlanners Author:Andre Vltchek
“In order for the second scenario to win, the world would have to return where the struggle for independence and against Western colonialism and imperialism was lost or abandoned more than 50 years ago. Let's face it: the world was never really completely de-colonized. It would be total hypocrisy to claim otherwise.” WorldYearsWould BeFacesOrderWinningLostStruggleReturnYears AgoClaimsIndependenceWesternHypocrisyAbandonedColonialismImperialismScenarios Author:Andre Vltchek
“One of the popular views in the liberal circles of the West is that we are actually 'all victims of capitalism'. I disagree. This savage global capitalism is only one of the most terrible bi-products of the dominant Western culture of racism, greed, brutality and unbridled desire to control the world.” WorldDesireCultureViewsProductsTerribleRacismCapitalismVictimWestWesternGreedCirclesDisagreeSavagesDominantBrutalityWestern Culture Author:Andre Vltchek
“The world is still being battered by the Western/white/Christian supremacy dogmas and practices, by the most primitive and fundamentalist 'principles'.” WorldStillsChristianWhitePrinciplesPracticeWesternDogmaPrimitiveFundamentalistSupremacyBattered Author:Andre Vltchek
“India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were now experiencing the Western life, if you will. Drugs and sex and a lot of those influences came in as the economy stabilized, and we were growing up and experiencing that. The Indian writing market was very small at that time. Our literature was very attuned to what Western audiences were interested in, so everybody was writing about the slums in India and magic realism or stories about Hindus and Muslims and partition.” IfsWritingFirstsStoriesLiteratureSexAudienceEconomyGrowing UpGrowingMagicInfluenceRevolutionDrugFirst TimeIndiaWesternOpeningIndianDramaticRealismOpening UpSlumsPartitionMagic Realism Author:Karan Bajaj
“Human rights are not the preserve of Western activists: The definition must extend to encompass the right to the dignified life; the right to send your kids to school, for that child to get health care, for access for greater prosperity for generations to come and to have a say in the destiny of your community and country. Under that definition, Rwanda has nothing to learn from advocacy groups who think they own the copyright on what constitutes human rights under all conditions in every corner of the world.” ThinkingWorldHumansChildrenCountryCareKidsSchoolCommunityDestinyGreaterRightsGenerationsGroupsConditionsWesternHuman RightsDefinitionsProsperityCornersAccessHealth CarePreservesActivistCopyrightAdvocacyRwandaCorners Of The World Author:Paul Kagame
“White people deserve to be hit, deserve to be the victims of crime and acts of terror because they have for so long been the unfair, unjust, immoral majority throughout most of the nations that are imbued with Western civilization. If you think that’s an exaggeration, it isn’t. That is exactly how the Democrat Party of today and the American left looks at things.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksLongTodayLeftNationsWhitePartyCrimeCivilizationDeserveVictimMajorityDemocratWesternTerrorUnfairUnjustImmoralExaggerationWestern CivilizationActs Of Terror Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Recep Tayyip Erdogan would be considered a gradualist. He is not decreeing Sharia as the law of the land tomorrow. He’s making gradual steps to desecularize the country so it’s not a shock to everyone, doesn’t cause all kinds of panic in the western world and the Europe world. And ISIS might be growing impatient. Even though they’ve been allied over oil and Syria, ISIS could be growing impatient. Then they see the deal with Israel, and they say, “To hell with this.”” WorldKindCountryMightWould BeLawCausesDealsStepsHellGrowingLandTomorrowEuropeWesternIsraelOilAll KindsShockPanicSyriaIsisImpatientWestern WorldShariaErdogan Author:Rush Limbaugh