Circumstances Quote by Ruth Benedict

To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.

— Bertrand Russell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

— Bruce Campbell

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

“Contrary to the central belief of multiculturalists, Western culture has achieved far more than other cultures in many significant spheres and has done so…

— Nicholas Wade

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

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with…

— Arthur Erickson

In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures…

— Tariq Ali

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false;…

— Samuel P. Huntington

I think Westerns are always so great for clearing out the clutter and the ambiguities, and getting right to the broad strokes of that…

— Bill Pullman

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

— Ibn Warraq

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

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