“Nineteen forty-five marked the nadir of Western Civilization.”

—  Modris Eksteins

Quoted by Paul Fussell. The Boys' Crusade. Random House, New York, 2003. pg xv. ISBN: 0-679-64088-6

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Nineteen forty-five marked the nadir of Western Civilization." by Modris Eksteins?
Modris Eksteins photo
Modris Eksteins1
Canadian historian 1943

Related quotes

“No culture has ever exceeded Western civilization in power and extent. Our society now covers more than half of the globe, extending in space from Poland to the east of Australia i n the west. In the course of this expansion, most of it during the last five centuries, the power of Western civilization has been so great that it has destroyed, almost without thinking of it, hundreds of other societies, including five or six other civilizations.”

Carroll Quigley (1910–1977) American historian

Source: The Evolution of Civilizations (1961) (Second Edition 1979), Chapter 10, Western Civilization, p. 334

Kevin Devine photo

“Forty million refugees with no place on this earth to call their home
One for every aimless graduate with nothing else to show for it but loans
Those of us who make a mark use someone else's blood.
Our western stain won't wash away; it won't vanish in the flood.”

Kevin Devine (1979) Songwriter and musician

" The Burning City Smoking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3YmL6Fc3K4," Put Your Ghost to Rest (2006)

Gary Snyder photo

“In Western Civilization, our elders are books.”

Gary Snyder (1930) American poet

Source: The Practice of the Wild: Essays

Theodore Dalrymple photo

“To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.”

Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer

Terry Pratchett photo

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”

Terry Pratchett book Reaper Man

Variant: Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
Source: Reaper Man

Eileen Myles photo

“Listen, I have been educated.
I have learned about Western
Civilization. Do you know
What the message of Western
Civilization is? I am alone.”

Eileen Myles (1949) American poet

Elia M. Ramollah photo

“There are a lot to learn in both Eastern and western civilizations. If we summarize the Western civilization to American civilization and take it as an example, we can better understand the vast area of knowledge that the East can pick up and learn from it. Likewise, the Westerners have to look up to the Eastern civilizations to get new and more inner or spiritual ideas in every dimension of life.”

Elia M. Ramollah (1973) founder and leader of the El Yasin Community

360 Doctrines and Comprehensive Theories, Union of Civilizations

Nicholas D. Kristof photo

“Compassion isn’t a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.”

Nicholas D. Kristof (1959) journalist, author, columnist

" Where is the Love? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/opinion/kristof-where-is-the-love.html?src=recg", New York Times, 27 November 2013

“The Western search for unifying truth did not come to an end with Christianity, any more than with the physical theories of forty years ago.”

Lancelot Law Whyte (1896–1972) Scottish industrial engineer

The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion (1974)
Context: Faced by the dire nihilism of our time, we need a greater honesty... The Western search for unifying truth did not come to an end with Christianity, any more than with the physical theories of forty years ago.

Related topics