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

All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.

Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.

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.

The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New York believe it or not. It's the same with the roles of slavery, racism and imperialism in the world. These institutions were present in other cultures. However, it was Western civilization which did something about slavery, about racism and voluntarily dissolved its empires leaving behind a very positive legacy of institutions not to mention buildings and roadways.

The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of the Enlightenment can be found in habits of mind cultivated in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, and the institutions that grew from them.