Quotes On Western Civilisation

#1. Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational order of things. Reign of matter, of gold, of machine, of number, it no longer possesses breath, or liberty, or light.

Julius Evola

#2. Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?

Simon Callow

#3. Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.

Harry Seidler

#4. The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

Kate Atkinson

#5. We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our own lines, unembarrassed by what Western civilisation has to teach us and unhampered by the institutions which the West has imposed.

Chittaranjan Das

#6. The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

Akihito

#7. We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

Richard O'Brien

#8. If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into.

Michael Leunig

#9. They looked at me, in my hippie garb, with horror and disgust, the Decline of Western Civilisation suddenly plopped in their midst.

Paul Monette

#10. Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

Alan Furst

#11. If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.

Harry Seidler

#12. Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that

Tony Abbott

#13. Kindness begins in the heart of a willing mind.

D.A. McBride

#14. Global military spending levels constitute an unconscionable use of resources and remain at an all-time high, reaching a total of USD 1.75 trillion in 2012, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#15. Though the three of them were unrelated by blood, they were sisters all the same. In the heart, where it mattered.

Charles De Lint

#16. I think anything is possible to anyone who dreams, dares, works and never gives up.

Xavier Dolan

#17. I'm moving away from time. Or, is it that time is moving away from me?

Leigh Hershkovich

#18. The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

William Shakespeare

#19. At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.

Melissa McCarthy

#20. The best teams are team in any sport that lose themselves in the team. The individuals lose their identity. And their identities come about as a result of being in the team first.

Mike Krzyzewski

#21. Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into who I am now.

Schoolboy Q

#22. Penelope screamed incoherently in Erik's tight embrace. Kaliope sat on her heels, rocking back and forth, silent. Her eyes were wide open, unblinking. She was silent

A.O. Peart

#23. We were what we had in life, I thought, and I was not sad about it or apologetic for its corniness.

Danielle Evans

#24. When he adopted Western methods, it was in a purely utilitarian spirit. He gave no thought to the principles on which our civilisation is based. It was the finished product he was after and not the process.

Homer B. Hulbert

#25. when my mother opens her mouth to have a conversation at dinner my father shoves the word hush between her lips and tells her to never speak with her mouth full this is how the women in my family learned to live with their mouths closed

Rupi Kaur

#26. Rabindranath Tagore put it gently to a Western audience in New York in 1930: 'A great portion of the world suffers from your civilisation.' Mahatma Gandhi was blunter: asked what he thought of Western civilization, he replied, 'It would be a good idea'. 'The

Shashi Tharoor

#27. Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.

Samuel P. Huntington

#28. In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.

Henry James Sumner Maine