Civilization Quote by Maxime Bernier

But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that…

— Amartya Sen

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

— Liu Xiaobo

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

It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as…

— William Pfaff

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

While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that…

— Martin Jacques

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where…

— Henry Flynt

Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength…

— Sydney J. Harris

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

— Chogyam Trungpa

We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as…

— Henry George

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

— Nelson Mandela

“In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But…

— Jordan B. Peterson