West Quotes - Page 37

• If you had planned to come to Crawford in the middle of the hot summer in August, no one would have come with you, if you had planned it. But spontaneously, we have now been here 11 days in the most intense heat that you can imagine of west Texas. Some of the most intense heat thunderstorms.

  Ann Wright

  Summer, Texas, August

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• The people in our country and in America and in all West European countries, they have to gorge and guzzle so that they don't even start to think about the fact that we have something to do with Vietnam or what it might be about, OK?

  Gudrun Ensslin

  Country, Thinking, America

  "Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History". Book by Siegfried Zielinski, 1999.

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• Our enemies are followers of a totalitarian ideology based on Islam, which tells them that Allah wishes to rule the world through them. Israel is a central front in this war. Given the weakness of Western support for the Jews, jihadists see attacking Israel as a strategic tool for eroding the West's ideological defenses and shoring up their supporters throughout the world.

  Caroline Glick

  War, Israel, Support

  "Live From NY’s 92nd Street Y Continues". Vail Daily Article, www.vaildaily.com. October 07, 2007.

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• The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

  Harold Innis

  Plato, Writing, Mixtures

  Harold Adams Innis (1948). “Minerva's owl: presidential address reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada, 1947”

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• These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new civilization on a bleak and rock bound coast. It was the White Men who drove north to Alaska and west to California; the men who opened up the tropics and subdued the Arctics; the men who mastered the African Veldts; the men who peopled Australia and seized the gates of the world at Suez, Gibraltar and Panama.

  Ben Klassen

  Destiny, Men, Alaska

  "Nature's Eternal Religion" by Ben Klassen, (Ch. 2, Paragraph 3), 1973.

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• Britain, with the most completely socialized health system in the West, now spends the lowest fraction of GNP on health care of any major nation. There are frequent complaints of excessive waits for elective surgery and other inconveniences, but British citizens live slightly longer than Americans, on average, and our overall health conditions are comparable.

  Robert Kuttner

  Average, Waiting, Citizens

  Robert Kuttner (1984). “The economic illusion: false choices between prosperity and social justice”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Demographics need not be destiny. The waning West became what it is not by out-breeding the undeveloped world. We were once great not because of huge numbers, but due to human capital - people of superior ideas and abilities, capable of innovation, exploration, science, philosophy.

  Ilana Mercer

  Philosophy, Destiny, Ideas

  "Beck, Wilders, and His Boosters' Blind Spot". www.ilanamercer.com. March 12, 2010.

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• Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Sublime, Republic, Enlightened

  James Kenneth Stephen (1909). “Lapsus Calami and Other Verses”

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• Palestine was the West Point and Annapolis for the world. In that little country God was training up a people out of whom, when the fullness of the time should come, His gospel cadets should emerge, fitted by all the training of all their national history for going out among the heathen and proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Country, People, Training

  William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”

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• The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Issues, Humanity

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “Ideal And Progress”, p.23, Read Books Ltd

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• There is one rule for the G-7 (richest countries) and another for the South. The G-7 now preaches open economies and liberalization, as well as 'good governance' and 'transparency'. Yet none of these things was conspicuous when the West grew rich.

  Jeremy Seabrook

  Country, Rich, Economy

  Jeremy Seabrook (2003). “The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty”, p.70, Verso

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• Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny and abuse, while economic oppression, tyranny and abuse are built into the very structures of globalization.

  Jeremy Seabrook

  Mean, Rights, Abuse

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• Some people are saying Bill O'Reilly exaggerated his war experience in the 1980s. People became suspicious because O'Reilly said he was injured in the East Coast/West Coast rap wars.

  Conan O'Brien

  War, Rap, People

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• Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.

  Henry David Thoreau

  East, Should, Trifling

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.94

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• With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably "anti-American" and "anti-West." Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public ... are swept along.

  Michael Parenti

  Mass Destruction, Leader, Drug

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• I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Life And Death, East

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• To be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west.

  Charles Baudouin

  Long, Doubt, Trying

  Charles Baudouin (1945). “Suggestion and Autosuggestion: A Psychological and Pedagogical Study Based Upon the Investigations Made by the New Nancy School”

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• If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Writing, Buddhism

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• Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Rip, Mean

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• Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some kind of sexual yoga in which you use sex as a vehicle for enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Philosophy, Yoga

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• You know, years ago John Calhoun said that West Point men would lead great armies... He never thought they'd be leading them against each other. Well, if we have to meet like that, I'd rather we never meet again.

  Philibert Orry

  War, Army, Men

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• The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to enrich their countrymen, the 'Turks' were in the usual Mediterranean business of slave-raiding - and now the English were the victims. The West Country men suffered the heaviest, and did not appreciate the irony. The Newfoundland fishery, dominated by Devon ports, lost at least 20 ships in 1611 alone.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Country, Attitude, Home

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• With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.

  Bryan Ward-Perkins

  Art, Philosophy, Fall

  Bryan Ward-Perkins (2006). “The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization”, p.13, OUP Oxford

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• Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was burgled, and his Porsche stolen, while he was heroically saving penalties at Anfield, fans took a typically witty line: police were said to be interviewing a man from the West London area, a certain Frank Lampard, whose whereabouts on Tuesday between 7.45pm and 10.15pm are unknown. Indeed.

  Declan Lynch

  Soccer, Football, Witty

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• We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.

  William Faulkner

  Wisdom, Wall, Powerful

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.150, Modern Library

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