West Quotes - page 2

Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments. (Amy Chua)
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans. View quote
Beau Bridges
I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other. View quote
David Selby
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot. View quote
Debbie Allen
I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth. View quote
Ethan Suplee
Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America. View quote
Louis Leakey
Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources. View quote
Philip Emeagwali
The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family. View quote
Townsend Harris
February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II. (Xavier Becerra)
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children. View quote
Germaine Greer
Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. View quote
Groucho Marx
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
If the Jews are denied the right to live in freedom and peace, soon we will all be denied this right. If the light of Israel is extinguished, we will all face darkness. If Israel falls, the West falls. View quote
Geert Wilders
We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is. View quote
Horace Mann
The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself. View quote
Whittaker Chambers
Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself. View quote
Shirin Ebadi
We have to work sincerely and responsibly to thwart any attempt to divide the Arab nation into small groups, with which foreign countries would deal separately. This would eventually be in the interests of Zionism, which stands behind such policies, formulating the relevant theories and promoting distorted information to world politicians, especially in the West, in order to make them adopt an approach which is harmful to the Arab nation and is even against the legitimate interests of their own countries. View quote
Saddam Hussein
During the rule of the Shah, arrogance, aggression, territorial expansion at the expense of the Arabs and attempts to harm Iraq's national sovereignty and the rights of the Arab nation were a constant pattern. Iraq and the Arab nation were regarded as a sphere of influence for the expansionist plans of Iranian interests. That policy has been followed throughout history by the State of Persia against its neighbours to the west, and as we have shown. View quote
Saddam Hussein
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. Yet those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism. Man's well-being is not their goal. (Ayn Rand)
Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours Syria and Lebanon – and genocidal actions against the marginalised Palestinians of the West Bank – and Gaza in particular. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West. View quote
Viktor Yushchenko
Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life. View quote
André Malraux
Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. So sensitive and so suspicious in the face of the wicked, civilized west. I shall always remember you - slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion - pumping hot water into our sleeping car in the frosty darkness of a December morning in order that we might not know, in order that we might never realize, to how primitive a land we had come. View quote
George F. Kennan