Western Values Quotes

• The UDHR has become an iconic document over the course of more than six decades, the starting point for discussions of whether or not the rights as set forth are truly universal or slanted to reflect the hegemony of Western values, especially those associated with liberal individualism.

  Richard A. Falk

  Rights, Six, Hegemony

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

  Mary Robinson

  Children, Race, Female

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Way, Polls, Aspect

  Source: content.time.com

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• Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same. Freedom not tyranny. Democracy not dictatorship. The rule of law not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.

  Tony Blair

  Gun, Law, People

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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• My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Brother, Thinking, Islam

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• We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.

  Rick Perry

  Apologizing, American Exceptionalism, Western

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions, and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.

  Paul Robeson

  Men, Creative, Frustrated

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• The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

  Silvia Cartwright

  Country, East, Developing Countries

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• When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery: today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long.

  Andrew Roberts

  War, Islands, Israel

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• I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend and can extend to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

  Bill Frist

  Men, Unions, Should

  "Frist Opposes Gay Marriage". www.nytimes.com. June 30, 2003.

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