Kenneth Scott Latourette Quotes

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia.

Everything in the Middle East is connected to everything else

I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

'Captives' was a deliberate bridging exercise, an attempt to use detailed knowledge of what Britain was like on the inside, to reach a deeper, more variegated understanding of how its peoples experienced external adventures and aggression over a quarter of a millennium in four continents.

Modernity is a shifting entity, not easily defined. Exactly the same is true of empire.

Using food as a way of understanding empire is highly effective. Food knows no barriers of race, gender or even time.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.

We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it.

The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.

It is through the European that civilization arrives ... precisely because of their superiority, the civilized people our responsible for an evolving world.

People tend to migrate from the third world to the metropolises of the very countries that once dominated them. Algerians to Paris; Puerto Ricans to New York; Pakistanis to London.

We are the Romans of the modern world—the great assimilating people.

It is impossible not to look forward to distant times when our rapid multiplication will expand … and cover the whole northern if not the southern continent.

When you start exporting ideas, philosophy, behavior, products, ways of living, it becomes an assault on the culture. Americans have to understand that.

I will devote the rest of my life to God’s plan and help to make the rest of the world English.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut.

I have no doubt that Japan will propagate to China and other countries in the Orient, whose standard of civilization is low, her new civilization, which is a product of harmonizing the Japanese and European civilizations. In a sense Japan may be said to have the mission of harmonizing Eastern and Western civilization and of propagating the new civilization; nay, I do not hesitate to declare that this is her mission

The things and ways the West took to the rest have become the ways of the world.

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle — that's my map of Africa.

‘Mitimaes’ is the name of those who are transported from one land to another. The first kind of mitimaes, as instituted by the Incas, were those who were moved to another country after a new province had been conquered… There they were expected to instruct their neighbors in the ways of peace and civilization.

Columbus did not discover a new world; he established contact between two worlds, both already old.

The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.