Best Western Civilization Sayings

101 Western Civilization quotes by 81 unique authors

For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one… — Niall Ferguson
It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum. — Jerry Springer
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is… — Mordecai
Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew… — Gary North
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known. — Ruth Benedict
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were… — John Lahr
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before. — Eric Rohmer
The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years. — John Shelby Spong
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me… — Liu Xiaobo
In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts… — Edward Bach
It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend… — Rene Dubos
We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here… — Edward F Edinger
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are satisfied… — Hu Shih
Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it… — Sydney J. Harris
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. — Mahatma Gandhi
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his… — Arthur Erickson
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called… — Pierre Schaeffer
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob… — Bill Walton
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the… — Robert Anton Wilson
A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures:… — Mark Steyn
To regret religion is to regret Western civilization. — Theodore Dalrymple
In Western Civilization, our elders are books. — Gary Snyder

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