Western civilization Quote by Niall Ferguson

“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has…

— Sigmund Freud

“We have been shirking too long, and that's unworthy of a great civilization. To see off the new Dark Ages will be tough and…

— Mark Steyn

“Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society.”

— Steven Pinker

“Alas! The work was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas.…

— Victor Hugo

“There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.”

— Walter Benjamin

“Even allowing for the imperfection of myths, it is enough to make us question, for that time and ours, the excuse of progress in…

— Howard Zinn

“Civilization is perhaps nothing but a process of finding out what you cannot have.”

— Sherwood Anderson

“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners”

— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“But then, anyone was capable of any manner of atrocities if they wanted something bad enough. People could justify anything to themselves if they…

— Stacia Kane

“I am sick of the quarrels of nations and kings, and I would not give a ha'pence for any empire other than our valley,…

— Naomi Novik

“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.”

— Voltaire