The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense..

The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as Chinese inventi….

Human rights transcend local or ethnocentric values, conferring equal dignity and value on all humanity regardless of sex, ethnicity, sexual preferen….

We are free, in the West, to choose; we have real choice to pursue our own desires; we are free to set the goals and contents of our own lives; the W….

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

A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of Michelangelo….

While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion..

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

Muslims have not ever been told to examine their faith in a critical way, so the shock is going to be even greater for them, as it is for any child w….

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way..

As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is….

Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate ….

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism.

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

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel..

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

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….

In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The Kor….

The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, e….

I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often..

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 ….