#west

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#confusion #equates #idea #new #nothing

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#convenience #create #culture #gaining #i

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#death #devastating #disgraceful #dying #helpless

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#britain #century #countries #every #france

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#am #because #here #i #i am

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#generation #had #how #lack #libraries

I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#doing #educated #geologist #grew #here

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#better #eight #northwest #shape #than

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#audience #cinema #group #little #make

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction. ↗

— Mae West

#mae-west #reading #dreams