“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
“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
“Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
“Geopolitical, cultural, and ideological crises were shaking confidence in the authority of established Western civilization so severely that sensible people believed that… — Robert Tombs Copy Share Image
“R.C. Sproul has written that "we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization." As… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“No serious writer would claim that the reign of Western civilization was unblemished. Yet there are those who would insist that there… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization. — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's… — Abel Ferrara 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
Our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
To be sure, the story of Hurricane Katrina does have a moral for anyone not deliberately blind. The races are different. Blacks… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
“Far from being tortured, the prisoners [at Guantanamo] are being handled literally with kid gloves (or simulated kid-effect gloves). The U.S. military… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
“It’s a path that grows government, restricts freedom and liberty and compromises those values, those Judeo-Christian, Western civilization values that made us… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Japan today has become acquainted with the Western civilization of the rule of Might, but retains the characteristics of the Oriental civilization… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
“The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr 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
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if,… — Malcolm Muggeridge 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
In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these… — Hamid Dabashi 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