#stern

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#concept #delinquent #god #mythology #senile

Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables. ↗

— Martin Yan

#cuisine #eat #kids #meat #never

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#crisis #employment #general #huge #western

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#consciousness #crisis #current #dominance #global

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#closely #comes #finnish #form #interest

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#beautiful person #best #best man #cleverest #competition

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#believe #civilization #competitive #consider #democracies

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#composition #grass #history #incorporated #influence

In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go? ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#inspirational #inspirational

Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that of the US than any time since the 1960's. ↗

— John Hutton

#account #any #capita #counties #europe