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c28593a Theirs is a civilization of deprivation; ours of finely balanced satisfaction ever teetering on the brink of excess. privilege western-civilization Iain M. Banks
0e51b0b "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." culture french-morocco imperialism koran modernism modernity morocco relativism way-of-life western-civilization western-dominion Paul Bowles
3f5756a The biggest threat to Western civilization is posed not by other civilizations, but by our own pusillanimity -- and by the historical ignorance that feeds it. history west western-civilization western-culture Niall Ferguson
f0c9628 Western technology made slavery unnecessary; Western ideas made it intolerable. west western-civilization Bernard Lewis