Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

Human rights transcend local or ethnocentric values, conferring equal dignity and value on all humanity regardless of sex, ethnicity, sexual preference, or religion. It is in the West that human rights are most respected.

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.

I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.