Civilization Quote by Mahatma Gandhi Download Open image “What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.” — Mahatma Gandhi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Western Western civilization
To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in the affairs of one's society can lead to a sense of powerlessness. In an age that is often crisis-laden and chaotic, an understanding of our Western heritage and its lessons can be instrumental in helping us create new… — Jackson Spielvogel Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect that civilization.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West. — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
