From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“The increase of knowledge has forced the thinker to specialise, with the result that there is nobody capable to deal with civilisation… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Don't you agree that there must be something radically wrong with a civilisation, society, theory of life - call it what you… — Catherine Carswell Copy Share Image
For neo-conservatism is a quintessentially Jewish project: a re-sanctification in everyday life of the core values of western civilisation, and the achievement… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
India has millions of internally displaced people. And now, they are putting their bodies on the line and fighting back. They are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc... It… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We don't know the spiritual advancements long-term veganism - over generations - would have for human life. It would be certainly a… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
“How quickly all the advantages of technological civilisation are wiped out by a domestic squabble. At the beginning of human history, as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I really feel like civilisation's already over. It's not ending but it's already done. We're all addicted to the concept that humanity… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
There's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilisation, that's out there exploring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Al Jazeera should understand the societies, should understand the culture of the civilisation, should understand the dynamics of the societies, should be… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me. Is it my age, I wonder, or the age… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“Our civilisation being what it is, you've got to spent eight hours out of every twenty-four as a mixture between an imbecile… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our… — Chittaranjan Das Copy Share Image
The razor-sharp line of division that exists between political ideologies in our own country in the United States, I think it's clear… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
