Western Civilization Quotes

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Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology of liberalism is an absolute evil.

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization - any kind of civilization - disappears.

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.

John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.

Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they're barbarians.

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

Health is the fastest growing failing business in western civilization.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to.

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.

[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing principle the destruction of Western civilization.

The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.

The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.

I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited to school for Career Day.

As Gandhi famously responded when asked about "Western civilization," "I wish they had one," the same applies to "international community": "I wish there was one."

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.

To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.

By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values.

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.