"We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world."

-- Silvia Cartwright

#Suffering Quotes #World Quotes #West Quotes

“Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change. Time and again, Americans have seen the need for change, and have taken the initiative to bring that change to life.”
“Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby,”
“When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.”
“Raymond Aron ascribes to Weber the view that 'each man's conscience is irrefutable.' ... while [Weber] holds that an agent may be more or less rational in acting consistently with his values, the choice of any one particular evaluative stance or commitment can be no more rational than any other. All faiths and all evaluations are equally non-rational...”
“You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing no voluntary harm to anyone. Those are all things easy to say and hard to do; they do not attract much attention, and win little honor in the world.”
“It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.”

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