Some preach that Muslims are destroying Western civilization.

He said Islam contributed a lot to western civilization.

Speroni claimed that Breivik s ideas are in defense of western civilization.

Against such tools unique products of Western civilization the rest had no chance.

When asked what he thought about Western civilization, Gandhi famously replied, It would be a good idea.

In other words, China, unlike the Western states and most countries in the world, is shaped by its sense of civilization, its existence as a civilization state, rather than as a nation state.

It has been used in Eastern as well as Western cultures, for instance, in Hindu nationalism ( In Search of the Cradle of Civilization 1995), and Taiwanese nationalism ( Taiwan The Cradle of Civilization 2002).

The resulting political tensions led to a second Thirty Years War that brought Western civilization to the brink of collapse.

More and more intellectuals were informed of the Western civilization and became conscious of the modernized powerful nations of Europe.

This structure harks back to the conditions of NATO s birth, when it was forged to thwart the Soviet threat to Western civilization.

There will soon be more mosques than churches, he says, if true Europeans don t have the guts to stand up and save Western civilization.

In most if not all non Western civilizations, pride and self love exclude self criticism or at least the criticism of one s civilization as such.

The very survival of Western civilization is at stake. Is it really so surprising that certain people might mistake this rhetoric for a call to arms?

We can look at our own history. The late physicist Gerard O'Neill said, Advanced Western civilization has had a destructive effect on all primitive civilizations it has come in contact with, even in those cases where every attempt was made to protect and guard the primitive civilization.

Moreover, after all that has happened in the past six months, Central Europeans can no longer look up to old countries representing the moral values of Western civilization.

To be sure, Russia has always been historically separate from the Western European tradition and from the nation state civilization that emerged after the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648.

The ideal of universal equality and rights does owe something to the history of Western civilization, from Socrates natural justice to Christianity and France s Declaration of the Rights of Man.

Examples There are probably as many cleavages in society as diverse members, but Seymour Martin Lipset and Stein Rokkan (1967) defined four basic cleavages for western civilization after the Industrial Revolution.

Throughout its history, my country has been fortunate enough to be exposed to and has accepted  various civilizations, such as those from China and India and, in modern times, Western civilization.

It is the earliest known civilization in the world, making Iraq one of the Cradles of Civilization.

I don't think the decline of Western civilization is inevitable, because I don't think history operates in this kind of life cycle model, beautifully illustrated by Thomas Cole's Course of Empire paintings.

Rather, it comes from the feeling that Western civilization is increasingly unsatisfying, saddled with a system of incentives that are essential for accumulating wealth, but that undermine our capacity to enjoy it.

The Zapotec civilization was an indigenous pre Columbian civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica.

Throughout his presidency, Putin repeatedly invoked Russia as an ancient, powerful, and divinely ordained state going back a thousand years, a civilization separate from the West, neither Communist nor a western liberal democracy.

So a dialogue between cultures is not only beneficial, but essential to civilization. No civilization is possible without it.

Love is the miracle of civilization.

Recognizing the richness of nomadic civilization and its important contribution to promoting dialogue and interaction among all forms of civilization,

Recognizing the richness of nomadic civilization and its important contribution to promoting dialogue and interaction among all forms of civilization,

The problem is that the global economic crisis has led even advanced Western states to question the wisdom of allowing the political civilization of human rights to interfere with the quest to restore economic growth.

The rhetoric of xenophobic demagogues appears to have convinced him that he had to kill the children of the social democratic elites in order to protect Western civilization against the dangers of multiculturalism and Islam.

China, over the same time period, went in exactly the opposite direction, very painfully holding this huge civilization, civilization state, together.

And built this civilization, this wonderful picture, that turned the darkness into light, and you can see the civilization from space.

Marcin Jakubowski Open sourced blueprints for civilization

VS Ramachandran The neurons that shaped civilization

War Before Civilization , Oxford University Press, 1996.

The challenges of building a civilization in a desert are very different than the problems of building a civilization in a rainforest.

Consider the mission entrusted to Rifa a al Tahtawi, the great Egyptian scholar sent to Europe by Mohammed Ali in 1826 to learn about Western civilization and to try to forge an understanding between it and Islam.

Marrash was fascinated by France, and by Paris the most everything he described in his account, from the Paris Exhibition of 1867 to gas lighting in the streets, served to praise the accomplishments of Western civilization.

But, of course, my real field of expertise lies in an even different kind of civilization I can't really call it a civilization.

Christian religions certainly helped to shape European civilization.

Yes, civilization seems to be on the defensive.

We live in an age in which many people are disillusioned with secular politics, and are turning to religion instead, not only throughout the Muslim world, but in the core of Western civilization, Christian Europe and Evangelist America.

Moreover, the current EU member states will not only have to be able to tolerate the criticism by central, eastern, and southern Europeans of western civilization, but also to take such criticism into consideration as they ponder policy.

The Dutch Freedom Party (whose only member is its leader, Geert Wilders), the Danish People s Party, led by Pia Kjaersgaard, and Jimmy Akesson s Sweden Democrats claim to be the defenders of Western civilization against its main enemy Islam.

Pascal has been called the architect of modern civilization.