Age Quote by Christopher Dawson

“Our ancestors had fought and murdered one another, married and forged alliances, founded countries. At their best - but only for selfish reasons -…

— Andrei Codrescu

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity…

— Holly Near

With globalization and with a lot of power evaporating from the nation-states, the late-19th century established hierarchies of importance, or 'pecking orders' of cultures,…

— Zygmunt Bauman

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of Christianity -that…

— David Bentley Hart

The old structure of the West as a synthesis of classical culture, Christianity, and the impulses of peoples entering history for the Žfirst time…

— Armin Mohler

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have…

— Jared Diamond

“Nationalism may begin with ideas among the elite but its propagation involves having mass support. Initially, anti-colonial”

— Romila Thapar

“But as nothing, Western or local, came to fill the void, the great drive to Westernise amounted mostly to the erasure of the past;…

— Orhan Pamuk

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who…

— Ziggy Marley

“A dynamic force seems to be drawing first Western society, then the rest of the world, toward a state of relative indifferentiation never before…

— René Girard

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

— Thomas B. Macaulay