Western civilization Quotes

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.”

— Thomas E. Woods Jr

“Western technology made slavery unnecessary; Western ideas made it intolerable.”

— Bernard Lewis

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

— John Milius

“Since Marco Polo, he thought, this climate has defeated Western civilization.”

— Denis Johnson

Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.

— Jordan Peterson

“Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.”

— Thomas E. Woods Jr

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.

— Jerry Springer

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization…

— Bill Walton

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

— Eric Rohmer

Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith…

— Rene Girard

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

— John Henrik Clarke

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been…

— Ruth Benedict

Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed…

— Meg Rosoff

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.

— Pete Hegseth

When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would…

— George Carlin

The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes…

— Anonymous

“The persecutorial impulse - 'the urge to purify the world through the annihilation of some category of human beings as imagined agents…

— Jonathan Kirsch

“In much of urban and Western civilization today, with no proper tragic sense of life, we try to believe that it is…

— Richard Rohr

My point is, as civilization is progressing, Mosaic law came down from the mountain, was handed to civilization, it emerged through the…

— Steve King

“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

The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty,…

— Osama bin Laden

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western…

— Arthur Erickson

I think you try to extrapolate from the early civilizations and cultures of the continent, kind of looking for unique ways they…

— Joe Robert Cole

“A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea highlands where she visited a stone age culture hardly…

— Carl Sagan

“When I look at this world I feel a deep pain. A burden in my soul. This overwhelming sadness threatens to engulf…

— David Holdsworth

“When I’m critical of modern approaches to ecology, I’m really trying to remind my reader of the long relationship that Western civilization…

— Robert Pogue Harrison

the present Western civilization ... is dominated by the extravert viewpoint. There are plenty of reasons for this domination: extraverts are more…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races…

— William O. Douglas

“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

“On THE DECSIVE DUEL: SPITFIRE VS 109 The epic struggle between the Spitfire and the Messerschmitt 109 upon which so much of…

— Andrew Roberts

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

“The greatest challenge that has surreptitiously arisen in our age is the challenge of knowledge, indeed, not as against ignorance; but knowledge…

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

“Minor segments of earlier history may have been rescued or 'retrieved' -- e.g. Greek 'democracy,' Aristotle, the Magna Carta, etc. -- but…

— Wael B. Hallaq

“Science fiction writers construct an imaginary future; historians attempt to reconstruct the past. Ultimately, both are seeking to understand the present. In…

— Naomi Oreskes

“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

“Yasunari Kawabata, the Japanese Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1968, committed suicide in 1971. Two years earlier, in 1969, another great…

— Alija Izetbegović

“My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that;…

— Howard Zinn

“Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a cultural shock than going to India. The people in the Indian…

— Walter Isaacson

“To begin with, we have to be more clear about what we mean by patriotic feelings. For a time when I was…

— Noam Chomsky