“Western technology made slavery unnecessary; Western ideas made it intolerable.” — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Health is the fastest growing failing business in western civilization. — E. Cheraskin Copy Share Image
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
If, by deferring or maybe even skipping college entirely, students were foregoing their one hope for immersion in Western civilization, there would… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization! — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
“For almost a thousand years, from before 500 to 1400, the cryptology of Western civilization stagnated.” — David Kahn Copy Share Image
“For most of Western civilization low sexual desire has been considered a goal rather than a problem.” — David Schnarch Copy Share Image
I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded… — Aharon Appelfeld Copy Share Image
“The West broke the world, now the human race gotta resurrect the world, offspring of the terrorists and terrorized alike - but… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“And were the vision of Democritus to have been adopted by Western civilization, instead of being cast aside for the pale views… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Even allowing for the imperfection of myths, it is enough to make us question, for that time and ours, the excuse of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“Geopolitical, cultural, and ideological crises were shaking confidence in the authority of established Western civilization so severely that sensible people believed that… — Robert Tombs Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Western civilization, with the Amsterdam red-light district as its fetid symbol, does have something to answer for. Maybe these streets are… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
“The "west"-what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Here are the facts. Coronary artery disease is the leading killer of men and women in Western civilization. In the United States… — Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr Copy Share Image
For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I now want to examine a second major feature of Western civilization that derives from Christianity. This is what philosopher Charles Taylor… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Brandon McCsw says the Western civilization was created in medieval Europe for the forms of thought and action in Modern Europe and… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw says when the Athenians and the Spartans found themselves as war witgh one another in 431 B.C.E., both sides believed… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
“Two diametrically opposed points of view concerning religion in the West are to bee seen among Muslims. Some consider all Westerners to… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these… — Hamid Dabashi Copy Share Image
“...every once in a while, a single person arises without whom everything would be different. Such a man was Churchill. After having… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“To emphasize the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discoverers, and to deemphasize their genocide, is not a technical… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world today. Of course not all of them are radicals. The majority of them are… — J.K. Sheindlin Copy Share Image
“Whoever has known the spiritual beauty of the Underground Church cannot be satisfied anymore with the emptiness of some Western churches. I… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“It has generally been assumed that fairy tales were first created for children and are largely the domain of children. But nothing… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“Science fiction writers construct an imaginary future; historians attempt to reconstruct the past. Ultimately, both are seeking to understand the present. In… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
“The greatest challenge that has surreptitiously arisen in our age is the challenge of knowledge, indeed, not as against ignorance; but knowledge… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image