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

We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.

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

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

Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.

Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.