I did have the resource of having taught Greek mythology and the history of Western civilization, and you can go back into… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
“the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization;… — Howard Zinn 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
“Imagine you are a member of a tour visiting Greece. The group goes to the Parthenon. It is a bore. Few people… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. Because few… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
“Death: It is the greatest adventure. It is stunning that in western civilization we deny it to the degree that we do.… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for… — Rebecca West 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
“One of Christianity’s key contributions to Western civilization was to give men and women a sense of freedom from the whims of… — Charles J. Chaput 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
“It is no wonder that historians trace the birth of Western civilization to these jewels of the Aegean, Ionian, and Mediterranean seas.… — Laura Brooks 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
The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
If we have an element of Americans here that reject western civilization, and that's a big element, that reject western civilization, then… — Steve King 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
Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
In Western Civilization - America and Britain - if you see people talking and it becomes an argument and voices are raised,… — John Gimlette 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
The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“And I shared with all Westerners a Greek heritage: If ancient Greece was the cradle of Western civilization, I think it fair… — Esther Lightcap Meek 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