Antiquity Quote by Christopher Dawson

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for…

— Ludwig von Mises

But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that…

— Amartya Sen

One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession…

— Sigmund Freud

There was this famous clash of civilization thesis from Samuel Huntington, a political theorist. And the idea was that Western civilization is at war…

— David Brooks

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the…

— Milton Friedman

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and…

— Indira Gandhi

We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or…

— Arthur Erickson

To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.

— Bertrand Russell

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.

— Sophie Swetchine

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

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false;…

— Samuel P. Huntington