“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
I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“Western Civilization was responsible for a paradigm shift in history. It created the industrial and scientific revolutions that enabled the birth of… — Benjamin Fulford 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
“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
... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement… — Rodney Stark 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 is not ‘Eurocentrism’ or (anti-)‘Orientalism’ to say that the rise of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of… — Niall Ferguson 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
“All of Western civilization is highly influenced by the Bible, so much so that today people take for granted that our morals… — Karla Perry 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
“In much of urban and Western civilization today, with no proper tragic sense of life, we try to believe that it is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how… — Evan Sayet Copy Share Image
I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom.… — Steve King Copy Share Image
We stand in the shadow of the Bible today as opposed to in the pages of the Bible. I think that the… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
“There have existed, and for the time being still exist, many cultures whose members refuse to cut the vocal cords of the… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western… — John Lahr 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
Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat… — Gary North 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
The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships… — James W. Prescott Copy Share Image
Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image