Alien Quote by John Rhys-Davies

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

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

— Eileen Myles

In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.

— Frederick Lenz

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

I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.

— Liu Xiaobo

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien…

— Flora Lewis

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they…

— Christopher Dawson

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

— Mark Twain

We know a way now to make use of democracy, and we know how to change the attitude of people towards government, but yet…

— Sun Yat-sen

In the West, people pride themselves on being the defenders of democratic rights and the champions of freedom. But if the Western world really…

— Nirmala Srivastava

So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“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