Quotes About Westernization

#1. Although everyone knew it as freedom from the laws of Islam, no one was quite sure what else westernization was good for.

Orhan Pamuk

#2. Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent.

Victor Davis Hanson

#3. The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

Orhan Pamuk

#4. The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#5. Modernization means Westernization.

Camille Paglia

#6. For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.

Orhan Pamuk

#7. Westernization is an often-used word in Korea, and can be applied to something considered cold, lacking in jeong, and going against traditional Korean values. To suggest that Korean households are now "Westernized," whatever that may mean exactly, would be a gross oversimplification.

Daniel Tudor

#8. Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.

Carlos Fuentes

#9. How do you let magic die?" I said slowly. I didn't know why, but I felt a great sense of loss at this. "By not using it. By not believing in it anymore. Belief, having faith in something, is a very powerful thing, Vega.

David Baldacci

#10. Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. Never, ever, ever give 100% in anything you do ... Always give more!

Rich Barnes

#12. The power of renewal, it lies in the mysterious.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#13. Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They're compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment.

Brene Brown

#14. I think we would look at other possibilities that would deliver further passenger capacity, that would deliver further infrastructure to the north of England but would be better value for taxpayers.

Andrea Leadsom

#15. Becoming a modern society is about industrialization, urbanization, and rising levels of literacy, education, and wealth. The qualities that make a society Western, in contrast, are special: the classical legacy, Christianity, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, civil society.

Samuel P. Huntington

#16. All my love, my pain, my passion were to be sacrificed for something greater, and yet i could not convince myself that i had mad the right choice.

Kailin Gow

#17. The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for ever.

Rosie Thomas

#18. I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

Pauline Collins

#19. I am ashamed to say this, but as a child, neither my parents not my teachers pushed me to read. In fact, I did not read an entire book through until I was a grown man and had learned the awesome power of reading on my own.

Daniel Whyte III

#20. I was surprised by the growl that wanted to well up in my throat ... I told myself it was stress, not my illness's way of saying, Get your own take-out.

Lia Habel

#21. In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

Samuel P. Huntington