Famous quotes containing the words western and/or civilization:
“Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“A mountain chain determines many things for the statesman and philosopher. The improvements of civilization rather creep along its sides than cross its summit. How often is it a barrier to prejudice and fanaticism!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)