Balance Quote by Hamid Dabashi

“The moment that the topic of the pre-European African past is raised, many individuals are concerned for various reasons to know about the existence…

— Walter Rodney

“Contrary to the central belief of multiculturalists, Western culture has achieved far more than other cultures in many significant spheres and has done so…

— Nicholas Wade

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

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

— Bertrand Russell

Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its…

— Roger Scruton

If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one…

— Sting

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

— Robert Andrews Millikan