World history Quote by David Christian

“Far from being Eurocentric, my analysis "exoticizes" Europe. Europe is historically aberrant. In some ways this was a historical accident, not entirely Europe's fault.…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the…

— George Scialabba

“I am not averse to generalizing the notion of "modern" to designate a certain way of life, rather than making it purely a synonym…

— Paul Valéry

The moderns do not realize modernity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that…

— Wilma Mankiller

I always thought that in the countries that the modernity kicks in later, it seems that everything changes on the surface, the physical things…

— Asghar Farhadi

Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables,…

— Orhan Pamuk

“The problem that will doubtless interest future historians is not so much the presence, in the twentieth century, of mass political alienation, but the…

— Lawrence Goodwyn

“This is clearly cultural imperialism, which explains why Western culture is, in fact, the sole (main) global culture. Yet, this is consistently disguised and…

— Sov8840

“Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world.”

— J.M. Blaut

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

— Theodore Bikel

We can't completely rely on the aberrations of history to explain today's European necessities. Future-related issues are no less pressing.

— Jean-Claude Juncker