Western Quotes - Page 16

• The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced

  Jeremy Paxman

  Promise, Rising, Pay

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• I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Motivation, Struggle

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• Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the pros and the cons it has, because we have ten centuries of more good experiences than bad ones.

  Pope Francis

  Favors, Maintaining, Celibacy

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• A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe.

  Carl Sagan

  Views, World, Tiny

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.48, Penguin

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• Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

  Carl Jung

  Technology, Doors, Hands

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psyche and symbol: a selection from the writings of C. G. Jung”, Anchor Books

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• As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.

  Rick Larsen

  Years, Aggravation, Agriculture

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• Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and Western civilization. It is the Science of Human Affairs which treats the livingness and beingness of Man and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Civilization, Knowing

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• Obama, who is becoming more and more preacher-like, wants to be the Punisher-in-Chi ef of the Western World, the Avenger-in-Chie f. There is something oddly Roman about him. ... The lesser races must be civilized and they must be punished... Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

  Robert Fisk

  Race, World, Want

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• The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth - that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans - is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots - the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which turns the revenge of the East into something darkly ambiguous, and all its victories truly Pyrrhic.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Disappointment, Revenge, Growth

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• ...self-important western journalists who'd given up their sacred trust to become cheerleaders for trendy causes, the way communist journalists had once been cheerleaders for the government...They were depriving the free world of its most valuable weapon in condemning and exposing the worst human scourge since Nazism: the targeting and murder of civilians to achieve political and religious ends.

  Naomi Ragen

  Religious, Government, Self

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• That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships-although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies.

  Rodney Stark

  Christian, Religious, Technology

  Rodney Stark (2007). “The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success”, p.48, Random House

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• I hear, Western people say, "The world was created for us." If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created for them and that man is a most sinful animal, because he does not allow him (the tiger) to catch him easily. The worm that crawls under your feet today is a God to be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Writing, Animal

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

  Carl Jung

  Western Culture, Tasks, Culture

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• I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.

  Franco Nero

  Crazy, Drinking, Wine

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• There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is created in our lifetime, it will be done by rejecting the racism, materialism, and violence that has characterized Western civilization and especially by working toward a world of brotherhood, cooperation, and peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Civilization, Racism

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.158, Beacon Press

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• I can't help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an increasing trend toward the next logical step, employee ownership. It is a path that befits a free people.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Believe, People

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment.

  Shirin Neshat

  Risk, Culture, World

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• Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

  Aldous Huxley

  Civilization, Three, Debt

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• Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success. Western climbers haven't lost as many fingers or toes.

  Wanda Rutkiewicz

  Climbing, Important, Toes

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• Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.

  Quentin Bryce

  Girl, Education, Country

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• The three values which men had held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism — as a cultural power — died at the time of the Renaissance. Collectivism — as a political ideal — died in World War II. As to altruism — it has never been alive. It is the poison of death in the blood of Western civilization, and men survived it only to the extent to which they neither believed nor practiced it.

  Ayn Rand

  War, Men, Civilization

  "Philosophy: Who Needs It".

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• There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Issues, Abuse

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• Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We are all of us self-important, which never produces any work. Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and, above all, perfect obedience; these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration. These traits are altogether lacking in us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Self, Perfect

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.134, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Everyone in the United States is so intense about maintaining a separation between Church and State when the real concern should be about keeping a separation between Corporations and State--because in America (and most of the rest of the Western World, for that matter) economics is the real religion.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Real, America, Church

  "The Storm Before the Calm". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 2011.

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• Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Two, Tears, Lectures

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