Western Civilization Quotes
101 quotes by 86 authors
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
— John Burroughs
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Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
— John Henrik Clarke
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When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make…
— George Carlin
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The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate with him, it…
— Corinne Heline
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My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.
— Marilyn French
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"It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless, together…
— Hermann Rauschning
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To be sure, the story of Hurricane Katrina does have a moral for anyone not deliberately blind. The races are different. Blacks and whites are…
— Jared Taylor
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An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology…
— Aleksandr Dugin
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John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
— Bill Walton
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For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong.…
— Gary Snyder
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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own…
— Marianne Williamson
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The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty, human rights, and…
— Osama bin Laden
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You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization. Our religious life…
— David Kudler
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To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.
— Jeremy Seabrook
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For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered…
— Carroll Quigley
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This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No matter where on…
— Terri Runnels
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Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
— Dinesh D'Souza
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The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom…
— Ludwig von Mises
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This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no…
— Christopher Dawson
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