{"quotes":[{"text":"Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting.","author":"Erich Maria Remarque","tags":["all-quiet-on-the-western-front","germany","indignation","inspirational","literature","reality","soldiers","truth","war","west","world-war","world-war-2"],"id":9534,"author_id":"Erich+Maria+Remarque"},{"text":"[Al-Qaeda's supporters] are aware of the cracks in the Western financial system as they are aware of the lines in their own hands.","author":"Osama bin Laden","tags":["al-qaeda","finance","west"],"id":12744,"author_id":"Osama+bin+Laden"},{"text":"The west coast is a mecca for wild hearts, wild minds, wild spirits and I’m a WMD—I’ve got so much energy I’m about to explode.","author":"Shannon Mullen","tags":["bipolar-disorder","energy","mania","mental-illness","west","wild-hearts","wilderness","wilderness"],"id":18782,"author_id":"Shannon+Mullen"},{"text":"Ultimately, I found my instincts mirrored in a line from Thoreau: 'My needle...Always settles between west and south-southwest. The future lies that way to me, and the earth seems more exhausted and richer on that side.","author":"Phillip Connors","tags":["144","fire-season","thoreau","travel","west","west-coast"],"id":30077,"author_id":"Phillip+Connors"},{"text":"They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.","author":"Bill Bryson","tags":["america","clouds","iowa","july","midwest","skies","storms","weather","west"],"id":39929,"author_id":"Bill+Bryson"},{"text":"Out where the handclasp's a little stronger  Out where the smile dwells a little longer  That's where the West begins.","author":"Arthur Chapman","tags":["west"],"id":47283,"author_id":"Arthur+Chapman"},{"text":"The great appeal of drugs in the West is only because the West has succeeded in destroying the right hemisphere completely because of compulsory education.","author":"Osho","tags":["compulsory-education","drugs","right-brain","west"],"id":52690,"author_id":"Osho"},{"text":"The Average Occidental- be he a democrat or a Fascist, a Capitalist or a Bolshevik, a manual worker or an intellectual- knows only one positive 'religion', and that is the worship of material progress, the belief that there is no other goal in life than to make that very life continually easier or, as the current expression goes, 'independent of nature'. The temples of this 'religion' are the gigantic factories, cinemas, chemical laboratories, dancing halls, hydro- electric works; and its priests are bankers, engineers,film stars, captains of industry, record-airmen. The unavoidable result of this craving after power and pleasure is the creation of hostile groups armed to the teeth and determined to destroy each other whenever their respective interests come to clash. And on the cultural side the result is the creation of a human type whose morality is confined to the question of practical utility alone, and whose highest criterion of good and evil is material progress.","author":"Muhammad Asad","tags":["democrat","fascists","morality","occidental","west"],"id":70646,"author_id":"Muhammad+Asad"},{"text":"Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry: the heartbeat of the West as it fought its way upward toward civilization.","author":"Wallace Stegner","tags":["circumstances","civilization","heartbeat","poetry","rocky-mountains","rough","roughness","west"],"id":74668,"author_id":"Wallace+Stegner"},{"text":"It's the easiest thing in the world to get to California-you just aim yourself west and start walking.","author":"Rae Carson","tags":["california","gold","rae-carson","seer","walk-on-earth-a-stranger","west","western","western-romance","world"],"id":76584,"author_id":"Rae+Carson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":52,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}