50 Quotes About Western-civilization

Western civilization places so much emphasis on the idea of hope that we sacrifice the present moment. Hope is for the future. It cannot help us discover joy, peace, or enlightenment in the present moment.

Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth canal may lead to a multitude of long term health problems.

The stuff of thought is historical stuff―no matter how abstract, general, or pure it may become in philosophic or scientific theory.

The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that.

All of Western civilization is highly influenced by the Bible, so much so that today people take for granted that our morals and our values are not common sense, but biblically based.

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

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

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.