#west

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price. ↗

— John le Carre

#any #certainly #committed #democracy #find

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#gay #human #invention #reality #western

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#country #dissent #eliminate #entirely #ever

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#claims #communism #crisis #fact #in fact

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset. ↗

— Lee Child

#days #into #mysterious #off #over

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#distressing #extremely #me #nation #newest

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#negative #portray #side #some #western

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West. ↗

— Charlotte Church

#get #i #lose #mae #mae west

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#architecture #british #certainties #cling #completely

It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#appreciate #creating #culture #doing #goes