#western

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#dismiss #iran #islamic #more #part

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention. ↗

— Lee Harvey Oswald

#free #hemisphere #idea #independent #individual

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

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right. ↗

— Richard Perle

#cause #common #common cause #exclude #extremists

Western man is schizophrenic. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#schizophrenic #western #western man

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

— Satyajit Ray

#indian #instruments #mix #time #western

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#down #essentially #four #got #his

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

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#being #clearly #country #culture #dominates

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'. ↗

— Lin Biao

#america #areas #asia #called #cities