Arise Quote by Liu Xiaobo

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption…

— Martin Jacques

I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all…

— Liu Xiaobo

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

— Liu Xiaobo

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

The criteria or the paradigm for us is not the West, not the Western paradigm, because the West has its own culture, we have…

— Bashar al-Assad

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

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false;…

— Samuel P. Huntington

On the one hand the world is getting more integrated and we should not dismiss social values as "Western" when they are actually modern…

— Zhang Xin

“Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in the affairs…

— Jackson Spielvogel

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

We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it through Western…

— Martin Jacques

China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but a civilisation state. Whereas…

— Martin Jacques