ISIL is more threatening to the Muslim world than it is to western civilization. — Richard Burr Copy Share Image
“There's a spirit to the western people, that is unique in the world.” — Nikolas Schreck Copy Share Image
My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world. — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“Helen declared Western civilization's lack of understanding of other peoples' customs to be the world's greatest and gravest social problem.” — Lily King Copy Share Image
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. — Stanley Marion Garn Copy Share Image
Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third… — Jeffrey Burton Russell Copy Share Image
This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Television completes the cycle of the human sensorium. With the omnipresent ear and the moving eye, we have abolished writing, the specialized… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“...to imitate Western civilization in its spirit, its mode of life and its social organization is impossible without dealing a fatal blow… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
“The popular and domesticated Jesus, who has become little more than a chrome-plated hood ornament on the guzzling Hummer of Western civilization,… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
All right, so there he is, our representative to the world, Mr. Western Civilization, in codpiece and pantyhose up there on the… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
“When historians and literary scholars talk about the classical heritage, or the legacy to Western civilization from antiquity, they are primarily thinking… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“The idea of women having sex without risking pregnancy is deeply disturbing to the vision of women's role that Western civilization has… — Jack Holland Copy Share Image
The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album… — Langdon Winner Copy Share Image
If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
I think religion has often played a very positive role. Take western civilization, the Catholic Church has played an honorable role in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Minor segments of earlier history may have been rescued or 'retrieved' -- e.g. Greek 'democracy,' Aristotle, the Magna Carta, etc. -- but… — Wael B. Hallaq Copy Share Image
“My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that;… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Yasunari Kawabata, the Japanese Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1968, committed suicide in 1971. Two years earlier, in 1969, another great… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“The words witch and witchcraft, in everyday usage for over a thousand years, have undergone several changes of meaning; and today witchcraft,… — Rossell Hope Robbins Copy Share Image
“There are truly only three situations in which debating someone on the left is worthwhile. First, you must: your grade depends on… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“After all, Malthus was wrong. Marx was wrong. Democracy did not die during the Great Depression as the Communists predicted. And Khrushchev… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“From the Renaissance until today, Christianity, and also to some extent Judaism, in the West have had to carry out a constant… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Woman thus emerged as the inessential who never returned to the essential, as the absolute Other, without reciprocity. All the creation myths… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image