Civilization Clash Quotes

The great question of the 20th century is whether the Anglo-Saxon of the Slav is to impress his civilization upon the world.

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

This land was our land; it was taken from us illegally …. John Smith did not bring a civilization here. There was already civilization here…. We should have burned the boat and killed them. all.

The British government in India constitutes a struggle between the Modern Civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the Ancient Civilization, which is the kingdom of God.

Our leaders do us no service when they fail to recognize that the threat the so-called Islamic State and its allied terrorists represent is a civilizational, not a geopolitical, conflict and can only be understood through that lens.

But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.

...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet now that it is here, one suspects that Hitler never could have consolidated his totalitarian control over Germany without its use. One never can tell what hands will reach out to lay hold on scientific gifts, or to what employment they will be put. Ever the old barbarian emerges, destructively using the new civilization.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.

I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.