“Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally destroyed the Greek Empire, driving out Greek scholars, who carried the knowledge of Greek language and literature to the western world; and in 1454 the first document known to us appeared from the printing press at Mainz.” WorldYearsFirstsTwoLiteratureLanguageKnownHappenedEventsPressesWesternDrivingDestroyedGreekEmpiresScholarDocumentsPrintingWestern WorldEpochPrinting PressConstantinople Author:Frederic G. Kenyon
“The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.” YearsFallPassionHappenedEuropeWesternWestern Europe Author:William Pfaff
“What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.” ShowsDemocracyHappenedIndiaWesternPakistanKuwait Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.” PeopleWritingStoriesLyingFictionFantasyHappenedMysteryEventsScience FictionWesternCoreUntrue Author:George R. R. Martin
“LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in the western world that interest me as much as Los Angeles - which might sound like heresy, but most cities, history has already happened and the people living there are sort of living on the bones of the thousand years of history that's already happened there. Whereas LA is always reinventing itself.” PeopleWorldYearsMightFoundSoundInterestCitiesHappenedHavensThousandWesternBonesMessLos AngelesThousand YearsHeresyLiving OnWestern WorldCrumblingReinventing Author:Moby
“What happened in the Western world was that Plato ceased to be the way people thought. Aristotle was rediscovered, and the modern, educated world moved toward Aristotelian thinking.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayHappenedModernMovedWesternEducatedPlatoWestern World Author:John Shelby Spong
“There's one other interesting thing about Western democracy. It didn't arrive at the end point that Karl Marx thought it would that wealth would become more and more concentrated in the hands of the few, that eventually the few would be killed by the many who were deprived, and that a different kind of government would then develop. What happened in Western democracy is that we began to understand that a democratic system can't work if half of the people are starving and the other half are dieting.” PeopleIfsKindDifferentEndsHandsGovernmentWould BeWealthInterestingHalfDemocracyHappenedDemocraticWesternDifferent KindsDeprivedStarvingInteresting ThingsOther HalfDieting Author:John Shelby Spong