What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human civilisation! — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Turns out we've been eating the wrong things...since the dawn of civilisation — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation. — Anonymous 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
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
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
Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to touch you.… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Civilisation never dies, it may change, but it is eternal. Where the paddy field is born on the dry river bed of… — Ritwik Ghatak 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
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
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
The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres… — William Hague Copy Share Image
“To save our dying earth, any government which is not environmentalist must go because on earth there are thousands of governments but… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, an Indian university must regard itself as one of the living organs of national reconstruction. It must discover the best… — Syama Prasad Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires… — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives,… — Alfred North Whitehead 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
“The forests were crippled, the wheat fields vanished; in place of the grass there reappeared stone and drifting sand. Men perished and… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . . — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
“Although we live in a civilised society, the business world remains a jungle.” — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Copy Share Image
“It is because nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation.” — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation. — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
When we say Tamil, we are not talking of a language but an entire civilisation. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
