West Quotes - Page 28

• By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

  Carroll Quigley

  Winter, Danger

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• Because I was born in the South, I'm a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being.

  Clyde Edgerton

  Would Be, Born, Humans

  "The South: Not all Bubbas and banjos" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. April 14, 2012.

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• Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  War, Long, Hypocrisy

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• All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.

  James Norman Hall

  Country, Roots, Middle

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• The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West and it is likely to persist, even in attenuated form, as long as the history of the West is not retold in ways that bring forward the perspective of the world.

  Michel-Rolph Trouillot

  Long, Perspective, World

  Michel-Rolph Trouillot (2015). “Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition): Power and the Production of History”, p.73, Beacon Press

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• Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on what North Koreans themselves are supposed to believe, paying special attention to the North Korean narratives and mass culture, including movies and television shows. (...) There are few books that can give the world a peek into the Hermit Kingdom. The Cleanest Race provides a reason to care about how those in North Korea see themselves and the West. It is possibly the best addition to that small library.

  Andrei Lankov

  Believe, Book, Race

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• American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically larger public sector, have fewer government employees per capita than the United States does.

  Robert Kuttner

  Country, Government, West Germany

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.23, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down.  The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to a deeper blue, to pale violet, to purple, then thins to grey.  Slowly the wind falls, and the still air begins to freeze.  The solid eastern ridge is black; it has a bloom on it like the dust on the skin of a grape.  The west flares briefly.  The long, cold amber of the afterglow casts clear black lunar shadows.  There is an animal mystery in the light that sets upon the fields like a frozen muscle that will flex and wake at sunrise.

  J. A. Baker

  Fall, Eye, Animal

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• In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.

  Kit Williams

  Simple, East, Made

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• The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim of life. Earning as much money as one can is not the real purpose of life. There is a superior entity, a divinity, le divin as we say in French that is worth thinking about, as are our feelings of wholeness, respect and love, if we can. A society in which these feelings are widespread would be more reasonable than the society the West presently lives in.

  Bernard d'Espagnat

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

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• Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

  Harvey Korman

  Men, Awards, Actors

  "Fictional character: Hedley Lamarr". "Blazing Saddles", www.imdb.com. 1974.

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• Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Country, Europe, Ideas

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

  Silvia Cartwright

  Suffering, World, Greedy

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• While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.

  Roland Gift

  Growing Up, People, Calypso

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• If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

  Ralph Peters

  Hatred, Underestimate, Collectives

  Ralph Peters (2001). “Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph?”, p.13, Stackpole Books

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• I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality--a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self--evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available.'

  Richard Foreman

  Unique, Technology, Men

  "The Pancake People, Or, 'The Gods Are Pounding My Head'". A Statement, www.edge.org. March 8, 2005.

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• Ten Little Indians once again shows [Alexie] to be not just one of the West’s best, but one of the most brilliantly literate American writers, even funnier than Louise Erdrich, even more primal than Jim Harrison, and even more eloquent than Annie Proulx.

  Ron Franscell

  Littles, Annie, Shows

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• The crowds at West Ham haven't been rewarded by results, but they keep turning up because of the good football they see. Other clubs will suffer from the old bugbear that results count more than anything. This has been the ruination of English soccer.

  Ron Greenwood

  Soccer, Football, Suffering

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• Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Bird, East, Littles

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.254

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• It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

  John Masefield

  Wind, Bird, Cry

  John Masefield (1913). “Salt-water Ballads”

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• We are rather candid with them about the nature of their political processes and the state of development of their institutions, but they are looking to the West because they know that's where success lies.

  Colin Powell

  Lying, Political, Deceit

  Colin Powell at Press Briefing on Board Plane En Route Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 2001-2009.state.gov. December 7, 2001.

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• The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

  Brian Mulroney

  Japan, West Germany, United States

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• I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

  Paz Vega

  Hollywood, Spain, Pieces

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• It was tough to get up for teams from the West. This will put a lot of interest back in the game.

  Martin Brodeur

  Team, Games, Tough

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• In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay in the Sahel or powerful Great Zimbabwe in the West Africa tablelands, bigger than the cresting Ottoman Empire, bigger than the Triple Alliance (as the Aztec empire is more precisely known), bigger by far than any European state, the Inka dominion extended over a staggering thirty-two degrees of latitude—as if a single power held sway from St. Petersburg to Cairo.

  Charles C. Mann

  Powerful, Russia, Aztec

  Charles C. Mann (2006). “1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus”, p.74, Vintage

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