Arise Quote by Liu Xiaobo

“Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth canal may…

— Steven Magee

“In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with the metaphysical,…

— Terry Eagleton

[Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me that I've…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture.…

— Anonymous

“Science fiction writers construct an imaginary future; historians attempt to reconstruct the past. Ultimately, both are seeking to understand the present. In this essay,…

— Naomi Oreskes

“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the belief in…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Liu Xiaobo

In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being…

— Cynthia Breazeal

“The expansionary dynamic of Western culture has been the root, the denominating constant, of modern history. The grandeur of Western liberalism, its material abundance,…

— Carl Oglesby

“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

“In Western tradition, white is beautiful because it is the colour of virtue. This remarkable equation relates to a particular definition of goodness. All…

— Richard Dyer