The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.
Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the West.
Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California.
I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.
Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L. A. to West L. A. to Hollywood and then back to East L. A.
The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.
The attack on the law firms and attacks like that are industrial espionage, searching for copyrighted materials to lift and so on; it's not quite the same as cyber-warfare. They are regarded as related. The Chinese are trying to steal an economic march on the West, which is a consequence of the fact that we outsourced all of our manufacturing to China in the 1990s.
Pythagoras was the first to introduce vegetarianism to the West. It is of profound depth for man to learn how to live in friendship with nature, in friendship with creatures. That becomes the foundation. And only on that foundation can you base your prayer, your meditativeness. You can watch it in yourself: when you eat meat, meditation will be found to be more and more difficult.
I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.
Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.
Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.
The West is anxious about becoming another Africa, and it has dug deep moats in the hopes of preventing that, but it's too late: it has already become another Africa.
Accepting Turkey as a member of the European club means that the club is open to outsiders, to Muslims, to poorer people, to developing countries, to countries with a slightly different cultural tradition but basically the same values. I think it's dangerous for the West to close the door; it doesn't do us any good and it doesn't do the rest of the world any good. Also, it reduces the danger of a "clash of civilizations".
I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.
The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.
I did not always agree, personally, on the positions that Bartlet, character from the West Wing, took and I argued against them on many occasions. But Aaron Sorkin said, "Martin, that's you, that's not Barlet. It's a very political decision he has to make. " I found from the very beginning that when I infused my own personal feelings about an issue it went against the grain of the character.
The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil and gas.
The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic selfvoid.
I saw Ben Stiller's movie Walter Mitty [2013]; it's very beautiful. You look at some of the movies John Ford did with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, and then look at Remington and Ansel Adams, and I think you see a connection, certainly in the imagery of the West.
The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.