Civilization Quote by Daniel Pipes

“secular, pluralistic, Western culture? There are several other “pressure points” at which our culture in the West is vulnerable to challenge. Western culture longs…

— Timothy Keller

While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that…

— 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

I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only…

— Muhammad Asad

“Another reason Westerners are tempted to compromise is because we tend to view the world dualistically. Things are true or false, right or wrong,…

— E. Randolph Richards

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were…

— Samuel P. Huntington

“Morally judging cultures (except Christian, Israeli and American cultures) is forbidden by the left. Indeed not judging non-Western cultures is the very definition of…

— Dennis Prager

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other religions were…

— Oliver Stone

All I can say is that we cannot shut our eyes to Western culture if that is not going to suit ours.

— P. T. Usha

Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.

— Herb Kawainui Kane

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No matter where…

— Terri Runnels