Civilization Quote by Liu Xiaobo

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led…

— Liu Xiaobo

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

I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.

— Marilynne Robinson

In the West you have every opportunity for civilization to triumph.

— Joseph Brodsky

I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to…

— Leonid Feodorov

I think it's motivating and exalting when we defend ideas that are at the foundation of western civilization.

— Maxime Bernier

I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

— Fatema Mernissi

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

Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

— Anonymous

"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice,…

— Luther Standing Bear

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

— Joel Salatin