Modern West Quotes

#1. The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of the Enlightenment can be found in habits of mind cultivated in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, and the institutions that grew from them.

Ibn Warraq

#2. The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

Pankaj Mishra

#3. In traditional societies, nature was seen as one's wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#4. Let's face it. Leftism is the political form of evil. And the left largely controls the modern West. Where, then, does that leave us all?

Lawrence Auster

#5. The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.

Peter Drucker

#6. The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.

James Buchan

#7. It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.

Rebecca West

#8. I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

Vanessa Hudgens

#9. In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority of the world's population from Turkey to China. These are the amazing stories of the grandfathers of today's angry Asians. Excellent!

Orhan Pamuk

#10. MANY PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT AIMS IN LIFE; THEY JUST NEVER GET AROUND TO PULLING THE TRIGGER.

Anonymous

#11. 'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.

Ian McKellen

#12. the American West quietly became the first and most durable example of the modern welfare state. The

Marc Reisner

#13. In the West, especially after World War II, the government came to be seen as so successful that it could fulfill all the obligations that in less modern societies are fulfilled by the family.

Lee Kuan Yew

#14. Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Naomi Wolf

#15. In order to compete with God for the dominion of the world, Satan, whom Christ called "the prince of this world," was forced to go into the "religion" business.

Billy Graham

#16. Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

Clint Eastwood

#17. The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.

James Buchan

#18. Whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

Rebecca West

#19. I don't want those things from you. I love your faults and imperfections. Your kind heart. The scars that match mine, and the struggles to find ourselves. I want your humanness. Nothing else.

A.G. Howard

#20. It is regrettable that many Christian psychologists talk more about such things as unconscious motivation and emotional damage than they do about sin and responsibility.

Larry Crabb

#21. "Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality.

Ken Wilber

#22. You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

Morris West

#23. After a long moment Laurent said, with painful honesty, "I ... find it difficult to let go of control."
"No kidding," said Damen.

C.S. Pacat

#24. There are no roads west of Pohkara, which is the last outpost of the modern world; in one days walk we are a century away.

Peter Matthiessen

#25. They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

Edith Hamilton

#26. I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer's job better than any other.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#27. In the West, we have deliberately excluded religion from political life and regard faith as an essentially private activity. But this is a modern development, dating only to the eighteenth century, and would have been incomprehensible to both Jesus and Paul.

Karen Armstrong

#28. By modern standards the whole of greater London, including Southwark and Westminster, was small. It stretched only about two miles from north to south and three from east to west, and could be crossed on foot in not much more than an hour.

Bill Bryson

#29. They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and spheres of influence. Such is the way in which historical forces operate: the give and take between nations, as between cultures, is no simple exchange

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

#30. Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.

Mason Cooley

#31. Ebola has not yet come into contact with modern medicine in West Africa. But when protocols for the provision of high quality supportive care are followed, the case fatality rate for Ebola may be lower than 20 percent.

Paul Farmer

#32. My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

Josh Hartnett

#33. The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

Kenzaburo Oe

#34. The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge ...

Sri Aurobindo

#35. The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland. They were drawn across the storm-racked ocean, drawn west past the edge of the known world, by nothing more than a hunger of the spirit, a yearning of such queer intensity that it beggars the modern imagination.

Jon Krakauer