The West and Westernization

(Wise Sayings of Imam Khomeini)

o By autosuggestion we must realize that nothing goes on in the West except

      the idea of keeping us behind from the caravan of progress and

      civilization.

o We accept the advancements of the Western world but not the Western

      corruption of which they themselves complain.

o The progress of the West is materialistic; it rears the world as a wild

      fighting beast.

o Western upbringing or education has divested mankind of his humanity.

o We have come to believe that everything is in the West. No! That which is

     in the West is the training of savage animals.

o We can't be independent; we can't have anything unless we purge our

      minds of Westernization and come to know ourselves.