Quotes of: Western-civilization Keyword

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a...

Karen Armstrong

Generalization is the biggest challenge that must be dealt with if we are to create spaces for constructive dialogue where muslims feel they are welcomed. This is equally true with regards to Westerners! Not all Westerners are against muslims, and no...

Widad Akrawi

I've always loved a good Western.

Ryan Robbins

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make grea...

Children of Dune

Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing the greatness that Muslims achieved in the past, or debating who first discovered the number zero, including the n...

Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins.

A Civil Campaign

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

Civilization and Its Discontents

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.

Gone

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.

Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others.

Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

To America with Love

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

Knowledge And Decisions

There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

The Left Hand of Darkness

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Walden & Civil Disobedience

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

Walden & Resistance to Civil Government

Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.

War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage