“The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.” HeartLittlesSoundWaterMy HeartHundredRiversStonesTownsWesternForgottenLovelyHillsMeadowsAll AloneHushBrakeLittle TownsMinglingSound Of Water Book:Hilaire Belloc: An Anthology of His Prose and Verse Source: Hilaire Belloc: An Anthology of His Prose and Verse
“In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.” IfsYearsTodayFiveIntellectualHundredTraditionTwentiesWesternConservativeDialogueAlternativesLiberalismCritiqueTwenty Five Author:Camille Paglia
“it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement of male supremacy is, rather, a pathetic striving for self-respect, self-justification, and self-pardon. After fifteen hundred years of subjection to men, Western woman finds it almost unbearable to face the fact that she has been hoodwinked and enslaved by her inferiors - that the master is lesser than the slave.” MenYearsHas BeensSelfFactsFacesWorryMastersHundredSlaveStriveWesternMalesDefenseSelf RespectJustificationFifteenInferiorsStatus QuoPatheticUnbearablePardonSupremacyEndorsementsSubjectionSelf Justification Author:Elizabeth Gould Davis
“Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions - rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time.” YearsArtPoliticalValuesSocialKeysHundredTransformationInstitutionsStructureWesternDecadesWorldview Author:Peter Drucker
“We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for a few hundred years and in different forms before that. There is great passion regardless of the fact that it's expensive and people who invest in it are giving money because they believe in it. They're not getting anything back other than satisfaction and enjoyment of hopefully many people having a human, deep, reflective and meditative experience that at its core is incredibly emotional.” PeopleKnowsGivingYearsBelieveHumansDifferentFactsStoriesFormPassionMovementEmotionalHundredWesternSatisfactionCoreRhythmHopefullyEnjoymentExpensiveOperaGreat PassionGiving Money Author:Jake Heggie
“Western conception of history has had great consequences over the last two hundred years. You see it in the invasion of Iraq. You see it in almost everything that is said and done.” YearsSaidTwoDoneLastsHundredConsequenceWesternIraqConceptionInvasionSaid And Done Author:Pankaj Mishra
“This is going to be a difficult few hundred years. No matter what we do, we have to give up some of the advantages of the wealthy Western nations and help out people who are less fortunate. That is the key. I think we can do it if we have more compassion for one another.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingYearsMatterHelpingNationsDifficultCan DoCompassionKeysGiving UpHundredAdvantageNo Matter WhatWesternFortunateWealthyLess Fortunate Author:Walter Munk
“The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.” YearsLastsLostHundredWesternMythMythologyWanderWho We AreHorizonWestern SocietyWhere We Came Author:J. Michael Straczynski
“Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.” YearsDoneReligionLiteratureChristianityDevelopmentCivilizationHundredWesternEighteenWestern CivilizationGood Christian Book:The writings of John Burroughs Source: The writings of John Burroughs
“Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWritingPersonsWantedBlackWhiteEqualRacismHundredWesternWoundsJournalismBlack PeopleWhite ManPeppers Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie