Western Civilization Quotes - Page 5

• Sobre la intervención humanitaria en general, supongo que mi opinión no es muy distinta de la que se atribuyó a Gandhi, con o sin razón, cuando supuestamente le preguntaron qué pensaba de la civilización occidental. Se supone que dijo que pensaba que sería una buena idea. Del mismo modo, la intervención humanitaria sería una buena idea, en principio.

  Noam Chomsky

  Views, Civilization, Ideas

  Seminar at Bard College, New York, February 2, 2000.

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• An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology of liberalism is an absolute evil.

  Aleksandr Dugin

  Civilization, Evil, Important

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• Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

  Ibn Warraq

  Art, Civilization, Taste

  Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.13, Encounter Books

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• El mayor número de drogadictos se encuentra en Teherán y en Karachi, no en Occidente. Ni en New York, aunque parezca mentira. Lo mismo ocurre con el papel de la esclavitud, el racismo y el imperialismo en el mundo. Estas instituciones estaban presentes en otras culturas. Sin embargo, fue la civilización occidental la que hizo algo con la esclavitud, con el racismo y disolvió voluntariamente sus imperios dejando tras de sí un legado muy positivo de instituciones por no hablar de edificios y carreteras.

  Ibn Warraq

  New York, Believe, Other Cultures

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the moral bases of Western civilization and therefore of nearly all moral progress in the world.

  Dennis Prager

  Religious, Civilization, Progress

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• Lo que el historiador Elie Kedourie llamó "la versión de Chatham House" -esa amalgama tóxica de petulancia, relativismo moral y sentimientos de culpa acariciados por los logros de la civilización occidental- nutrió por doquier el catecismo de la opinión establecida.

  Roger Kimball

  Civilization, House, Achievement

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• In Western Civilization - America and Britain - if you see people talking and it becomes an argument and voices are raised, you are not surprised if violence follows. Hopefully it won't, but you are not surprised.

  John Gimlette

  Talking, Civilization, Voice

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• White people deserve to be hit, deserve to be the victims of crime and acts of terror because they have for so long been the unfair, unjust, immoral majority throughout most of the nations that are imbued with Western civilization. If you think that’s an exaggeration, it isn’t. That is exactly how the Democrat Party of today and the American left looks at things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Thinking, Civilization

  "Scrambling Liberals Don’t Know Who to Blame for the Istanbul Airport Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 29, 2016.

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• Para volver a un momento de la civilización occidental lo suficientemente remoto en el tiempo como para que podamos analizarlo desapasionadamente, pregúntese qué ocurrió durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. ¿Cuál fue el comportamiento típico de los intelectuales respetados en Alemania, Inglaterra y Estados Unidos? ¿Qué ocurrió con aquellos que cuestionaron públicamente la nobleza del esfuerzo bélico, en ambos bandos? No creo que las respuestas sean atípicas.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, Civilization

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• [Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me that I've never forgotten. He used his extensive knowledge of art history to illustrate the development of Western culture and politics.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Art, Years, Civilization

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• I think religion has often played a very positive role. Take western civilization, the Catholic Church has played an honorable role in helping those in need. In contrast, the US carried out a virtual war against the church in central America in the 1980's primarily because prime elements in the church were working with great courage and honor to help those in need. And to organize them to help themselves.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, Civilization

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Como Gandhi respondió célebremente cuando le preguntaron por la "civilización occidental": "Ojalá tuvieran una", lo mismo se aplica a la "comunidad internacional": "Ojalá hubiera una".

  Richard A. Falk

  Civilization, Community, Wish

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of freedom and human rights were present at the dawn of Western civilization, as ideals at least, but have gradually come to fruition through supreme acts of self-criticism.

  Ibn Warraq

  Religious, Gay, Civilization

  Source: counterjihadreport.com

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• Una de las habilidades más desarrolladas en la civilización occidental contemporánea es la disección: la división de los problemas en sus componentes más pequeños posibles. Se nos da bien. Tan buenos que a menudo nos olvidamos de volver a unir las piezas.

  Alvin Toffler

  Civilization, Skills, Together Again

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• Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

  Ibn Warraq

  New York, Civilization, Library

  Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.13, Encounter Books

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• By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values.

  Ibn Warraq

  New York, Breathing, Civilization

  Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.13, Encounter Books

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• Vivimos en lo que puede ser el periodo más antiintelectual de la historia de la civilización occidental.

  R. C. Sproul

  Civilization, Intellectual, May

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• When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas of a proper environment and a rewarding life. Doing this, it disrupted the delicate patterns of adaptation and created problems that had not existed before.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Ideas, Civilization, Patterns

  Paul Feyerabend (2001). “Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being”, p.159, University of Chicago Press

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• El cristianismo y la civilización occidental: ¡cuántos crímenes se han cometido en tu nombre!

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Religious, Civilization, Names

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• It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

  Jeffrey Burton Russell

  Civilization, Earth, Firsts

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• ... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement from the edge of the Roman Empire dislodge classical paganism and become the dominant faith of Western civilization? Although this is the only question, it requires many answers - no one thing led to the triumph of Christianity.

  Rodney Stark

  Civilization, Atheism, Empires

  Rodney Stark (1996). “The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History”, p.3, Princeton University Press

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• Para la mayor parte de la civilización occidental no existía una división real entre los reinos de la ciencia, la divinidad y el esfuerzo artístico; eran sólo tres hebras de la misma trenza, todas ellas tirando hacia el mismo hermoso deseo: intentar comprender el funcionamiento de este curioso y hermoso mundo. Hubo muchas personas que se habrían llamado a sí mismas las tres cosas a la vez: hombres de Dios, hombres de ciencia, hombres de arte.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Art, Real

  Interview with Vendela Vida, www.believermag.com. September, 2013.

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• American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.

  Ishmael Reed

  Education, Sex, Race

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• No hay reliquia más asombrosa del sometimiento de la mujer que sobreviva en la civilización occidental que el estatus de la prostituta .... ¿En relación con qué otro vicio ilegal sólo se penaliza al vendedor y no al comprador?

  Crystal Eastman

  Civilization, Vices, Connections

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I still cling to the hope that the United States is the Mac to Europe's PC, and that if one part of the West can successfully update and reboot itself, it's America.

  Niall Ferguson

  Civilization, America, Europe

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