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title: "16 Western Civilisation Quotes by 16 authors"
description: "Browse 16 Western Civilisation quotes by 16 authors. Discover the best Western Civilisation sayings and thoughts."
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> [Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-furst/whether-you-like-it-or-not-paris-is-the-beating-heart-of-western/)

[Alan Furst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-furst/)

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> [Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-abbott/western-civilisation-came-to-this-country-in-1788-and-i-m-proud-of/)

[Tony Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-abbott/)

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> [The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-japanese-keenly-learned-from-western-civilisation-in-a-bid-to/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-atkinson/the-cult-of-the-individual-is-killing-us-i-think-twitter-signals-the/)

[Kate Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-atkinson/)

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> [Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julius-evola/western-civilisation-needs-a-complete-overhaul-or-it-will-fall-apart/)

[Julius Evola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julius-evola/)

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> [If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-seidler/if-there-is-one-country-and-its-people-that-have-contributed-most-to/)

[Harry Seidler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-seidler/)

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> [Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-davenport-hines/western-civilisation-the-litists-all-understood-is-built-upon/)

[Richard Davenport-Hines](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-davenport-hines/)

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> [Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-callow/jesus-is-absolutely-at-the-centre-of-western-civilisation-and-part-of/)

[Simon Callow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-callow/)

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> [We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-o-brien/we-were-a-western-civilisation-an-english-speaking-civilisation-both/)

[Richard O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-o-brien/)

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> [“Western ‘civilisation’ has been based on the ideas of ancient Greece, where the concept of ‘democracy’ (government by the people) assumed that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-palmer/western-civilisation-has-been-based-on-the-ideas-of-ancient-greece/)

[Gabrielle Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-palmer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41c/gabrielle-palmer-891_ancient-greece_western-civilisation-has-been-based-on-t_740716.jpg)

> [We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chittaranjan-das/we-stand-then-for-freedom-because-we-claim-the-right-to-develop-our/)

[Chittaranjan Das](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chittaranjan-das/)

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> [one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dervla-murphy/one-feels-guilty-on-behalf-of-western-civilisation-what-damage-are-we/)

[Dervla Murphy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dervla-murphy/)

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> [Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-kemp/unless-legal-and-illegal-immigration-is-halted-and-reversed-european/)

[Arthur Kemp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-kemp/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad9/arthur-kemp-47704_america_unless-legal-and-illegal-immigration-is_2474831.jpg)

> [Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bentley-hart/among-all-the-many-great-transitions-that-have-marked-the-evolution/)

[David Bentley Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bentley-hart/)

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> [“To avoid the Scylla of paleotechnic peace and the Charybdis of War, the leaders of the coming polity will steer a bold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-geddes/to-avoid-the-scylla-of-paleotechnic-peace-and-the-charybdis-of-war/)

[Patrick Geddes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-geddes/)

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> [No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-dawson/no-civilisation-not-even-that-of-ancient-greece-has-ever-undergone/)

[Christopher Dawson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-dawson/)

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                        "text": "one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that because we are materially richer we must be emulated without question? What compels us to infect everyone else with our own sick urgency to change, soften and standardise? How can we have the effrontery to lord it over peoples who retain what we have lost - a sane awareness that what matters most is immeasurable?",
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                        "text": "Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North America, Australia and New Zealand - will be destroyed and have their very culture and civilisation changed to that of the Third World. Immigration is now the single most important issue facing all First World nations, and will determine whether Western Civilisation continues to exist or not.",
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                        "text": "Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of Christianity -that can be called in the fullest sense a \"revolution\": a truly massive and epochal revision of humanity's prevailing vision of reality, so pervasive in its influence and so vast in its consequences as to actually have created a new conception of the world, of history, of human nature, of time, and of the moral good.",
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                        "text": "“To avoid the Scylla of paleotechnic peace and the Charybdis of War, the leaders of the coming polity will steer a bold course for Eutopia [sic]. They will aim at the development of every region, its folk, work and place, in terms of the genius loci , of every nation, according to the best of its tradition and spirit; but in such wise that each region, each nation, makes its unique contribution to the rich pattern of our ever-evolving Western civilisation.”",
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