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“Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.”

“In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.”

States United Half Millions United States Bills Western Miles Opening Territory Squares Abraham Settlement One Half Gdp Homesteading Homestead Act

Author:Peter Agre

“Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.”

Guy Party Western Agents Agency Officials Ministry Volunteer Nerd Intelligence Agencies

Author:Aldrich Ames

“Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.”

Lows Europe Western Arguing Debate Historian Soviet Invasion Likelihood Gdp Western Europe

Author:Aldrich Ames

“As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.”

Civilization Diversity Strive Western Distraction Publishers Pillars Western Civilization

Author:Pete Hegseth

“The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather, its activities continued strongly during the later centuries, particularly in Persia and other eastern lands of Islam, and it was revived in Egypt during the last century.”

Years Philosophy Lasts Land Century Activity Hundred Years Ago Islam Western Eight Islamic Egypt Eastern Scholarship Persia

Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.”

Western Musical Opposition Composer Ruling Accumulation Livelihood Canon Subversion

Author:Brian Ferneyhough

“One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.”

Two Facts Literature Names Language Fiction Known Western Rate Absence Prose Lateness Comparative Literature

Book:The English Novel

Source: The English Novel

“A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.”

People Civilization Threat Western Western Civilization

Author:John Milius

“Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.”

Source: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.”

Years Littles Three Taken Ten Ordinary My Family Towns Western Three Years Ordinary Life Minnesota Three Year Olds Little Towns Vapid

Author:Mary MacLane

“In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'”

People Life Is Found Religious Land India Western Distinction Division Secular Clergymen Layman

Author:Virchand Gandhi

“The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.”

World Problem Development Western Progressive Consumption World Bank

Author:Herman E. Daly

“The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory genius of the Greeks; no primitive peoples have ever come to study us. This is, on the one hand, a disinterested, intellectually inspired impulse. It is one of our glories. But it is, on the other, part and parcel of exploitation. [] The Western obsession with inquiry, with analysis, with the classification of all living forms, is itself a mode of subjugation, of psychological and technical mastery.”

“While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It was perfectly dry in spite of the fact that it had been immersed in water for centuries. The same is true of many people in the Western world. For centuries they have been surrounded by Christianity; they live immersed in the waters of its benefits. And yet it has not penetrated their hearts; they do not love it. The fault is not in Christianity, but in men's hearts, which have been hardened by materialism and intellectualism.”

“But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.”

Want Looks Eye Leader Media Weakness West Western Gdp Western Media

Author:Abu Bakar Bashir

“The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.”

Knows World Country Body Leader Advice Western Imf World Bank

Author:Abu Bakar Bashir

“Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.”

Stories Western Wilder

Author:Lawrence Kasdan

“Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture”

Culture Western Western Culture Sharing Knowledge

Author:Fons Trompenaars

“British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies.”

Source: On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason

“Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.”

Thinking Looks Art Country Form Singing Sitting Western Ignored Couches

Author:Ricky Skaggs

“In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist thought always defended individual liberty and laissez-faire while attacking the systematic and coercive use of violence typical of government.”

“Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done”

Firsts Wells Done Care Suffering Hell West Western Don't Care Instance I Don't Care Canada Pioneers Settlers Western Canada

Author:Bobby Hull

“Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization. It rests, however, on many untested, and in some cases untestable, assumptions. Indeed, big bang cosmology has become a bandwagon of thought that reflects faith as much as objective truth.”

Has Beens Bigs Universe Cases Theory Civilization Western Objectives Assumption Bangs Cosmology Western Civilization Objective Truth Bandwagon

Author:Geoffrey Burbidge

“Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu.”

World Mind Lost Memories Known Style Western Nostalgia Manage Nightmare Composition Alleys Ephemeral Western World

Author:Florence King

“We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races and all beliefs. It is vital and dynamic. And it works. We have the means of shaping the world in our pattern. If we do, freedom will be assured for all men. The decision is in the hands of this generation. It is a challenge to our political competence. For Western civilization it is the greatest challenge of all time.”

“Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had a long and illustrious pedigree, as Columbus himself was well aware. . . . "The second reason that inspired the Admiral [Columbus] to launch his enterprise and helped justify his giving the name 'Indies' to the lands which he discovered was the authority of many learned men who said that one could sail westward from the western end of Africa and Spain to the eastern end of India, and that no great sea lay between."”

“Western governments ... will lose the war against dealers unless efforts are switched to prevention and therapy... All penalties for drug users should be dropped ... Making drug abuse a crime is useless and even dangerous ... Every year we seize more and more drugs and arrest more and more dealers but at the same time the quantity available in our countries still increases... Police are losing the drug battle worldwide.”

“That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.”

Thinking States Forget Known Percent Constitution Western Apathy Forget It Dakota

Author:Ezra Pound

“Come with me to the Winged Isle- Northern father's Western child Where the Dance of Ages is playing still through far marches of Acres Wild.”

Children Stills Age Father Western March Acres Isle

Author:Ian Anderson

“Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California, for several generations now, has been the newest, biggest, most experimental place in the newest, biggest, most experimental part of liberal Western capitalism - which is itself a new experiment for mankind.”

Ifs World Has Beens America Generations Modern Mankind Civilization Capitalism Western Ill Experiments California Trends Modern World Western Civilization

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate to feel something, anything, that we keep falling into each other and f*****g our way toward the end of days.”

World Way Feels Ends America Fall Modern Civilization Western Edges Desperate The End Of The Day Modern World Western Civilization Edge Of The World

Author:M.I.A.

“I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week.”

People Enough Today School Community Church Week Western Australia Pastor Linked Community Service School Life Bible School

Author:Margaret Court

“Modern Christians, especially those in the Western world, have generally been found wanting in the area of holiness of body. Gluttony and laziness, for example, were regarded by earlier Christians as sin. Today we may look on these as weaknesses of the will but certainly not sin. We even joke about our overeating and other indulgences instead of crying out to God in confession and repentance.”

World Looks May Body Today Christian Found Sin Modern Cry Example Jokes Weakness Areas Western Holiness Repentance Laziness Confession Indulgence Western World Gluttony Overeating

Author:Jerry Bridges

“Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.”

Want Wells Liberty Civilization And Love Western Blindness Western Civilization Thug Loathe Love Death

Author:Tony Snow

“Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.”

People Feels States Sides Modern Europe Slavery Western Libertarian Welfare Entitled Welfare State Western Europe

Author:Thomas Sowell

“By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.”

“Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.”

Eye Turns Existence Modern Position Objects Depends Slave Western Educated Passive Frozen Beholder Harem

Book:Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems

Source: Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems

“I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.”

Instruments Western Indian Gdp

Book:Satyajit Ray: Interviews

Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews

“Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of western culture for almost twenty centuries... It is from his birth that most of the human race dates its calendars, it is by his name that millions curse and in his name that millions pray.”

Source: Jesus through the centuries: Mary through the centuries

“The great truths of human life do not spring new born to each new generation. They derive from long experience. They are the gathered wisdom of the race. They are renewed in time of conflict and danger.”

Ifs Life Humans Long Desire Understanding Born Race Generations Danger Conflict Spring Tradition Western Worthy Human Life Heritage New Generation Not Worthy

Author:Frederick Osborn

“All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.”

Source: Civil Wars

“"What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist," I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said.”

Said Sound Words Of Wisdom Western Taoism Like Something Unbelievers Tao Of Pooh

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet . Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said. "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said.”

Firsts Said Wisdom Happens Today Lasts Sound Wonder Morning Food Exciting Wake Up Western Taoism Breakfast Like Something Unbelievers Piglet Tao Of Pooh Pooh Piglet

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“In the West the whole Western tradition of religion and psychology propounds, preaches, persuades people to have strong egos - because unless you have a strong ego, how can you survive? Life is a struggle; if you are egoless you will be destroyed. Then who will resist? Who will fight? Who will compete? And life is a continuous competition. Western psychology says: Attain to the ego, be strong in it.”

People Ifs Whole Life Is Fighting Strong Struggle Psychology Ego Tradition Competition West Western Destroyed Life Is A Struggle

Author:Rajneesh

“But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego is the problem he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker. This is the paradox - in the West ego is taught, in the East egolessness is taught. But in the West it is easy to dissolve the ego, in the East it is very difficult.”

Problem Easy Difficult Understanding Taught Ego West Western East Paradox Eastern Seekers

Author:Rajneesh

“The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.”

People World Stories Vision Generations Events Dancing Dance Western Folks Alternatives Primal Western World

Book:Dance: Rituals of Experience

Source: Dance: Rituals of Experience

“Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.”

“One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on.”

Happens Time Fighting Deals Technology Society Conditions Effects Emotional Expression Solutions Crisis Response Western Things Happen Buttons Quarrels Reliance Impatient

Author:Dalai Lama

“I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.”

Western Indian Classical Music

Book:Satyajit Ray: Interviews

Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews

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