Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I was happy at ESPN, I was succeeding at ESPN and I love sports. But the very foundational principles, set aside politics,… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
“Rather than a great tragedy, the fall of Rome was the single most beneficial event in the rise of Western civilization.” — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits. — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regenerate their own stagnant society, they destroy… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“It was all here for me, just as it has all been here for you, the best and the worst of Western… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“On THE DECSIVE DUEL: SPITFIRE VS 109 The epic struggle between the Spitfire and the Messerschmitt 109 upon which so much of… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The real issues are whether the power of Western Civilization, as God has permitted it to flower in our own beloved lands,… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“This was an infidel country, whose way of life we Muslims were supposed to oppose and reject. Why was it, then, so… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“And we were taught to play golf. Golf epitomizes the tame world. On a golf course nature is neutered. The grass is… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
“It is not that the historian can avoid emphasis of some facts and not of others. This is as natural to him… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The Arab world has done nothing to help the Palestinian refugees they created when they attacked Israel in 1948. It’s called the… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
“Mary’s Fingerprints The most significant era where her fingerprints have been left is medieval Europe. The word medieval today has many negative… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
As Gandhi famously responded when asked about "Western civilization," "I wish they had one," the same applies to "international community": "I wish… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Republicans will never turn a blind eye to unjust acts, but neither will we accept an all-out assault on Western civilization. — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image
“Overall, it seems that we have to accept that Western civilization will decline. It is, essentially, inevitable.” — Bruce Charlton Copy Share Image
Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity,… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
“As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Which decent human being on… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Mohamed Akram, explained that the Brotherhood “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
My point is, as civilization is progressing, Mosaic law came down from the mountain, was handed to civilization, it emerged through the… — Steve King Copy Share Image
“In intellectual and popular culture, war has come to be regarded by many as a peculiar psychosis of Western civilization. This atmosphere… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
