#western world

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#decades #good #history #much #over

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#cheering #lad #playboy #western #western world

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#detente #encouraging #especially #expansion #failed

Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

#handsome #men #most #only #robert

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#crisis #employment #general #huge #western

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#business #device #did #dirty #horrible

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#amongst #britain #china #country #desire

We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#aid program #being #days #debt #demands

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#american #american literature #among #aspired #been

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods. ↗

— Whitley Strieber

#associated #completion #egyptian #ends #every