The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“country that doesn’t grow its own wine grapes has no claim to civilisation.” — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Civilisation is slippery, the word has multiple and contested meanings. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.” — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer? — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.” — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
In every island of the Aegaean Sea, on almost every barren rock I might say, are found abundant traces of a vast… — James Theodore Bent Copy Share Image
The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
“Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“I thought I was getting away from politics for a while. But I now realise that the vuvuzela is to these World… — Richard Calland Copy Share Image
As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great… — Austen Henry Layard Copy Share Image
I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation.… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
“I have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're looking into the void. We… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
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