Best Western Civilization Quotations
101 Western Civilization quotes by 81 unique authors
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Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find…
— John Barth
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The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western…
— Carlos Fuentes
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Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
— Terence McKenna
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I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited…
— Rick Riordan
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There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.)…
— William Goldman
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Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of…
— Meg Rosoff
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I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because…
— E L Konigsburg
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Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.
— Tom Robbins
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If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture?…
— Bill Hicks
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And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at war with itself.…
— Rick Riordan
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from…
— Terence McKenna
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A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America?…
— Rick Riordan
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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.
— Ludwig von Mises
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If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
— Unknown Author
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Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the…
— Dalai Lama
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Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range…
— Paul Johnson
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Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From it, we get…
— John Rhys-Davies
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I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on miserable…
— Jonas Mekas
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I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine was tantamount to…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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A great deal of stupidity has chipped away at the massive advantages of Western civilization, which could terminally decline if it remains on the current…
— Paul Singer
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My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman.…
— Gary Bauer
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Brandon McCsw says the Western civilization was created in medieval Europe for the forms of thought and action in Modern Europe and America, which they…
— Brandon McCaw
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Brandon McCaw says when the Athenians and the Spartans found themselves as war witgh one another in 431 B.C.E., both sides believed a conclusion would…
— Brandon McCaw
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Brandon McCaw did a story based on Greek poets like Hesiod described a heroic age when great men mingled with gods and powerful kingdoms contended…
— Brandon McCaw
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