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Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to degrading commercial story lines - stands testament to the ignorance of society. Fair or not, as the lead gender that never requested such a role, the historical male reputation is quite balanced. For all of their perceived wrongs, over centuries they've moved entire civilizations forward, nurtured the human quest for discovery and industry, and led humankind from inconvenient darkness to convenient modernity. Navigating the chessboard that is human existence is quite a feat, yet one rarely acknowledged in modern academia or media. And yet for those monumental achievements, I love and admire the balanced creation that is man for all his strengths and weaknesses, his gifts and his curses. I would venture to say that most wise women do.

~ Tiffany Madison

Tiffany Madison Culture Feminism Life Maleness Modernity Philosophy Popular Culture Postmodernism Western Civilization Wisdom Women S Liberation

The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though...

~ Ramez Naam

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The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

~ Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Thomas E. Woods Jr. Catholicism Egyptology Science Western Civilization

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

~ Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Thomas E. Woods Jr. Catholicism Science Seismology Western Civilization

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.

~ Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Thomas E. Woods Jr. Catholicism Science Western Civilization

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

~ Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Thomas E. Woods Jr. Catholicism Geology Science Western Civilization

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.

~ Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Thomas E. Woods Jr. Catholicism Science Western Civilization

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.

~ John Burdett

John Burdett America Capitalism Economics Politics Western Civilization

Decadence, decadence, he said to himself. They’ve lost everything and gained nothing. The French had merely daubed on the finishing touches at the end of a process which had begun five hundred years ago, at least. Their intuitive moral desires coincided with the ideals embodied in the formulas of their religion, yet they could live in accordance neither with those deepest impulses nor with the precepts of the religion, because society came in between with all the pressure of its tradition. No one could afford to be honest or generous or merciful because every one of them distrusted all the others; often they had more confidence in a Christian they were meeting for the first time than in a Moslem they had known for years.

~ Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles Christianity Colonialism Conformity Decadence French Morocco Hegemony Islam Mistrust Morocco Social Convention Social Pressures Tradition Western Civilization Westernization

Tracker Marks was of a different opinion. Though he seemed more white than a white man, he had no time for their ways. For him his dress, his deportment was no different than staying downwind in the shadows of trees when hunting, blending into the world of those he hunted, rather than standing out from it. Once he had excelled at the emu dance & the kangaroo dance; then his talent led him to the whitefella dance, only now no-one was left of his tribe to stand around the fire & laugh & praise his talent for observation & stealthy imitation.The whites have no law, he told Capois Death, no dreaming. Their way of life made no sense whatsoever. Still, he did not hate them or despise them. They were stupid beyond belief, but they had a power, & somehow their stupidity & their power were, in Tracker Marks’s mind, inextricably connected. But how? he asked Capois Death. How can power & ignorance sleep together? Questions to which Capois Death had no answer.

~ Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan Aboriginal Aboriginal Culture Aboriginals Australia Civilization Colonialism Ignorance Imperialism Power Race Race Relations Stupidity Tasmania Western Civilization White Man

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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I certainly don’t like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don’t believe in God, or at least not in the one we’ve invented for ourselves in England to fulfill our peculiarly English needs, and certainly not in the ones they’ve invented in America, who supply their servants with toupees, television stations, and, most important, toll-free telephone numbers. I wish that people who did believe in such things would keep them to themselves and not export them to the developing world.

~ Douglas Adams

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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

~ Terence Mckenna

Terence Mckenna Ego Self Western Civilization

We live in truly unbelievable times. Autism is an epidemic in most westerncountries, western governments are nothing more than corrupt corporations, and corporations areroutinely suppressing information regarding the toxicity of many common household items. The resultis that many people are unnecessarily suffering from easily preventable developmental problems,sickness and cancer.

~ Steven Magee

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In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

~ Samuel P. Huntington

Samuel P. Huntington Cultural Biases Culture International Relations Western Civilization Western Culture Westernization

Every little thing makes a difference, whether you decide it yourself or whether it’s pure accident. So many people have had the whole course of their lives changed by something perfectly simple like, let’s say, crossing the street at one point instead of another.”“Yes, yes, yes, I know,” Stenham said with exaggerated weariness. “As far as I’m concerned that’s just as boring, and a lot more false, by the way. The point I’m trying to make is that he loves his world of Koranic law because it’s his, and at the same time he hates it because his intuition tells him it’s at the end of its rope. He can’t expect anything more from it. And our world, he hates that too, just on general principles, and yet it’s his only hope, the only way out—if there is one for him personally, which I doubt.

~ Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles Colonialism Culture French Morocco Imperialism Koran Modernism Modernity Morocco Relativism Way Of Life Western Civilization Western Dominion

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.

~ Karla Perry

Karla Perry Bible Morals Values Western Civilization

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.

~ Steven Magee

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Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.

~ Samuel P. Huntington

Samuel P. Huntington Islam Western Civilization

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

Samuel P. Huntington Islam Western Civilization

This was an infidel country, whose way of life we Muslims were supposed to oppose and reject. Why was it, then, so much better run, better led, and made for such better lives than the places we came from? Shouldn't the places where Allah was worshipped and His laws obeyed have been at peace and wealthy, and the unbelievers' countries ignorant, poor, and at war?

~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Islam Politics Religion Western Civilization

The propensity to say and do dumb things, and even wicked things, is simply part of human nature. One can blame the Church or Christianity for such things only on the thoroughly unwarranted assumption that Christianity claims to have abolished human nature. The truth is that Christianity, and the Catholic Church in particular, is the mother of Western civilization, with all it strengths and weaknesses, including its frequently exaggerated penchant for self-criticism. Like others who know what it is to be a mother, she is not surprised, although sometimes disappointed, when she is blamed for everything and thanked for nothing.

~ Richard John Neuhaus

Richard John Neuhaus Christianity Free Speech Liberty Western Civilization

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

~ Terence Mckenna

Terence Mckenna Earth Gun Sustainability Western Civilization

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.

~ Samuel P. Huntington

Samuel P. Huntington International Relations Violence Western Civilization World Order

It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.

~ Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Thomas E. Woods Jr. Catholicism Law Western Civilization

Looking at him she felt she knew what the people of antiquity had been like. Thirty centuries or more were effaced, and there he was, the alert and predatory sub-human, further from what she believed man should be like than the naked savage, because the savage was tractable, while this creature, wearing the armor of his own rigid barbaric culture, consciously defied progress. And that was what Stenham saw, too; to him the boy was a perfect symbol of human backwardness, and excited his praise precisely because he was “pure”: there was no room in his personality for anything that mankind had not already fully developed long ago. To him he was a consolation, a living proof that today’s triumph was not yet total; he personified Stenham’s infantile hope that time might still be halted and man sent back to his origins.

~ Paul Bowles

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After all, Malthus was wrong. Marx was wrong. Democracy did not die during the Great Depression as the Communists predicted. And Khrushchev did not 'bury' us. We buried him. Neville Chute's On the Beach proved as fanciful as Dr. Strangelove and Seven Days in May. Paul Ehrlich's Population Bomb never exploded. It fizzled. The Clash of 79 produced Ronald Reagan and an era of good feelings. The Club of Rome notwithstanding, we did not run out of oil. The world did not end at the close of the second millennium, as some prophesied and others hoped. Who predicted the disappearance of the Soviet Empire? Is it not possible that today's most populous nations -China, India, and Indonesia- could break into pieces as well? Why do predictions of the Death of the West not belong on the same shelf as the predictions of 'nuclear winter' and 'global warming'? Answer: the Death of the West is not a prediction of what is going to happen, it is a depiction of what is happening now. First World nations are dying.

~ Pat Buchanan

Pat Buchanan Communism Death And Dying Overpopulation Western Civilization

[T]he West did not invent slavery, the West ended slavery.

~ Pat Buchanan

Pat Buchanan Abolitionism Slavery Western Civilization

Western technology made slavery unnecessary, Western ideas made it intolerable.

~ Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis Slavery West Western Civilization

Economics is not the central problem of this century. It is a relative problem which can be solved in relative ways. Faith is the central problem of this age. The Western world does not know it, but it already possesses the answer to this problem-but only provided that its faith in God and the freedom He enjoins is as great as Communism's faith in Man.

~ Whittaker Chambers

Whittaker Chambers Communism Faith Western Civilization

The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious context, in the assurance that they could live a life of their own as humanistic ethics, has resulted in our cut flower culture. Cut flowers retain their original beauty and fragrance, but only so long as they retain the vitality that they have drawn from their now-severed roots; after that is exhausted, they wither and die. So with freedom, brotherhood, justice, and personal dignity — the values that form the moral foundation of our civilization. Without the life-giving power of the faith out of which they have sprung, they possess neither meaning nor vitality.

~ Will Herberg

Will Herberg Civilization Faith Judaism Religion Secularism Western Civilization

As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Which decent human being on earth harbors any illusions about it? These are people whose histories are spongy with the blood of others. Colonialism, apartheid, slavery, ethnic cleansing, germ warfare, chemical weapons - they virtually invented it all.

~ Arundhati Roy

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