Claims Quote by Bertrand Russell

Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

— Ibn Warraq

One of the greatest accomplishments of Western civilization is the development of the scientific method and the scientific disposition, which entail the development of…

— Heather Mac Donald

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

— Paul Harris

Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.

— Ali Babacan

Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.

— Satish Kumar

Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the…

— Martin Jacques

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying…

— Samuel P. Huntington

The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because,…

— Martin Jacques

Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.

— Roberto Orci

The criteria or the paradigm for us is not the West, not the Western paradigm, because the West has its own culture, we have…

— Bashar al-Assad