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The next war ... may well bury Western civilization forever.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
— John Burroughs
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
— Bill Walton
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
— Stanley Marion Garn
To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.
— Jeremy Seabrook
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When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he famously replied that "it would be a very good idea.
— Yanis Varoufakis
Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.
— Tom Robbins
Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.
— Huston Smith
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
— Stephen Gardiner
Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
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— Sushil Singh
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
— Richard Foreman
The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
— Terence McKenna
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
— Vine Deloria Jr.
The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.
— John Shelby Spong
There's a spirit to the western people, that is unique in the world.
— Nikolas Schreck
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
— Eric Rohmer
The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected thebiggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization. — Allen Ginsberg
Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Yet the special thing about literature, the major art form of a Western civilization now ending before our very eyes, is not hard to define.
— Michel Houellebecq
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
— Aharon Appelfeld
(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Theirs is a civilization of deprivation; ours of finely balanced satisfaction ever teetering on the brink of excess.
— Iain M. Banks
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.
— Pete Hegseth
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
— John Henrik Clarke
In Western Civilization, our elders are books.
— Gary Snyder
For most of Western civilization low sexual desire has been considered a goal rather than a problem.
— David Schnarch
Modern India is a product of Hindu tradition, the religion of Islam, and Western civilization.
— Gurcharan Das
The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.
— Shulamith Firestone
Western Civilization rests on great men, and nothing else. And we are no longer producing great men.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.
— Marilyn French
To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.
— Theodore Dalrymple
While I was critical of many things when it came to so-called Western civilization, cleavage was not one of them.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
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?
— Pierre Schaeffer
The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.