A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Climate change is an existential threat to our economy, and ultimately to civilisation as we know it. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them. — Pim Fortuyn Copy Share Image
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended, — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“Civilisation required a contribution – or a sacrifice, if that’s what you wanted to call it.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy. — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South… — P. W. Botha Copy Share Image
History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“In any case civilisation has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must… — Edward Glaeser Copy Share Image
As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“I thought to myself: this is how civilisation ends. Standards decline, accountability ends, the rule of law is impotent, the thugs take… — Adam Nevill Copy Share Image
The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply.… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am not a simpleton', he said, 'nor am I a childish old man. I dislike childishness and all such rubbish. I… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
There exists in the world today, and has existed for thousands of years, a body of enlightened humans united in what might… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“Modern civilisation does not generate an ethical framework for human life.” — Simon du Plock Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint?” — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.” — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens? — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
