Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
“The effects could be sufficiently severe to threaten the fabric of civilisation.” — Greg Breining Copy Share Image
When we say Tamil, we are not talking of a language but an entire civilisation. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“... the very least one requires for civilisation to survive is an adequate supply of sound wines.” — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Copy Share Image
Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by… — H. Jay Dinshah Copy Share Image
It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten.… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what… — African Spir Copy Share Image
I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“Civilisation consists in giving something a name that doesn't belong to it and then dreaming over the result. And the false name… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both… — Richard O'Brien Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, 'When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric,… — Mark Gevisser Copy Share Image
“Do you even know,” she said, and I could tell from the sound of her voice that she was about to cry,… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most significant intellectual trend of the eighteenth century was that towards what we now label 'Romanticism'. Within this often rather… — Malcolm Chapman Copy Share Image
“Soon the people will decide that they want their land to be a part of today's monstrous world, and once that happens,… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
“A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation.” — Samuel Johnson 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
“If we desire a certain type of civilisation and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I like looking at the countryside as well as anyone... a little countryside goes a long way, but it's almost like the… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
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