Civilization Quote by Martin Jacques

The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence,…

— Rajneesh

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

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

“Nothing is right and nothing is wrong. Evolution is cyclical. You also have to understand the West and East are only directions, not absolute…

— Ajay Chaturvedi

Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

— Ibn Warraq

“It must be admitted that the West has reached a level of scientific mastery and outstanding specialisation. In its points of reference, this evolution…

— Tariq Ramadan

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

— Niall Ferguson

I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only…

— Muhammad Asad

The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to…

— Tehyi Hsieh

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

— Anonymous

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