#western

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#economic #every #expectation #general #globe

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#democracies #iraq #just #rest #symbol

Western man is schizophrenic. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#schizophrenic #western #western man

Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#capacity #countries #gnp #important #industrialized

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#indian #instruments #mix #time #western

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before. ↗

— Eric Rohmer

#before #civilization #content #films #haven

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#aside #down #economy #forests #gone

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. ↗

— Vine Deloria, Jr.

#connects #does #equivalent #knowledge #link

The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#finding #good #i #kind #lot

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#asian #because #been #both #both sides