American culture Quote by Steve King

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

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

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

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat…

— Jerry Brown

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western…

— Steven Pinker

So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The majority of Western culture came out of Europe, which is not comparable to America. It came out of nation states based on geographical…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

— Jordan Peterson

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

“secular, pluralistic, Western culture? There are several other “pressure points” at which our culture in the West is vulnerable to challenge. Western culture longs…

— Timothy Keller

All I can say is that we cannot shut our eyes to Western culture if that is not going to suit ours.

— P. T. Usha