Adaptation Quote by Paul Feyerabend

What Westerns did was to take a world and mythologise it.

— Steven Knight

The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought…

— Eric Hoffer

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

People in the East looked toward the West with longing. They would have liked to have the same comforts, the same goods, the same…

— Stefan Heym

“The implications are sobering: the non-West not only finds itself replicating the West’s trauma on an infinitely larger scale. While helping inflict the profoundest…

— Pankaj Mishra

“But as nothing, Western or local, came to fill the void, the great drive to Westernise amounted mostly to the erasure of the past;…

— Orhan Pamuk

“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

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have…

— Jared Diamond

Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control…

— Michael Parenti

The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet began to…

— Eckhart Tolle

There's a reason the Third World came in third.

— Jim Goad

While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against…

— Hamid Dabashi