#west

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#decision making #democracy #first #first thing #go

Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#chase #command #east #end #even

I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#acceptance #also #avoidance #child #family

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. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#comes #eyes #good #just #leaders

The boughs that bear most hang lowest. ↗

— David Garrick

#boughs #hang #lowest #most

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#contempt #culture #disinformation #form #garbage

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. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#been #country #history #i #interested

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence. ↗

— John Bruton

#confidence #destroy #economic #nuclear #terrorist

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words. ↗

— Arthur Bryant

#possible #say #words #you

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. ↗

— James Buchan

#baghdad #been #british #creeping #decline