#western civilization

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

#civilization #his #individuality #narrow-minded #situation

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul. ↗

— Edward Bach

#between #christ #civilization #example #glorious

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#been #century #civilization #cooperation #development

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#call #case #cast #civilization #could

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#big #big fan #big problem #certain #civilization

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

— Richard Foreman

#expression #feeling #play #twilight #ultimate

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. ↗

— Tony Snow

#annihilate #anymore #blindness #civilization #death

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#civilization #forever #may #next #war

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#behavior #bible #civilization #describes #god

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

— John Burroughs

#civilization #development #did #done #eighteen