How we cite our quotes: (Sentence)
Quote #4
In the Philippines, in South and Central America, democracy has been given a rebirth. Throughout the Pacific, free markets are working miracle after miracle of economic growth. In the industrialized nations, a technological revolution is taking place—a revolution marked by rapid, dramatic advances in computers and telecommunications. In Europe, only one nation and those it controls refuse to join the community of freedom. Yet in this age of redoubled economic growth, of information and innovation, the Soviet Union faces a choice: it must make fundamental changes, or it will become obsolete. (86-90)
One of these things is not like the other…and it's the East. Look around, East, and get it together. Everyone's having a grand time making money and being free…everyone, that is, except the Soviet Union and its posse of communists. It's time to make some changes, East. It's time to be more like the West. Everybody's doing it.
Quote #5
Perhaps this gets to the root of the matter, to the most fundamental distinction of all between East and West. The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship. The totalitarian world finds even symbols of love and of worship an affront. (118-20)
Yup, you read that right: totalitarianism sucks the humanness out of living. Clearly no one wants to hang out with someone who sucks the humanness out of everything. Looks like the West wins this round too.