#stern

South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#beginning #built #case #day #depended

I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#communities #drinking #i #i think #living

Right now we're in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King. ↗

— Sandy Duncan

#between #cultural #cultural war #get #just

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. ↗

— Edward Bond

#consumerism #convenience #democracy #democratic #domestic

I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#back #came #fashion #i #into

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#end #itself #more #per #pleasure

And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#conquering #destroying #driving #eastern #fundamentalists

The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world. ↗

— James Buchan

#dominion #eternal #force #forms #god-given

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation. ↗

— James Buchan

#adjusted #age #average #barrel #century

To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#authority #buddha #consider #eastern #experience