Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“Civilisation isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly,… — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
“In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Indian civilisation does not distinguish in terms of religion. We are an impossible achievement in the world and I'm very proud to… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well? — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point… — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching… — Edward Mayhew Copy Share Image
You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility -… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
“In fact, the words perfectibilité and civilisation made their first appearance in any European language in the 1750s. The adjective ‘social’ acquired… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“This — this is the dawn of a new day in human living. At the climax of that civilisation which had its… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Girls say to me, very reasonably, 'why isn't it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bunch of… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
[The Koran is one of] the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known. — William Muir Copy Share Image
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we… — Florence Nightingale 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
The economic system that represents our civilisation will one day end, too. We'll be inside a museum - the great museum of… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“the march of civilisation has given the modern girl a vocabulary and an ability to use it which her grandmother never had” — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching… — Heather James Copy Share Image
Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a runaway train without break heading towards a dustbin of history. It's a a sad indictment that the bedrock… — Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom Copy Share Image
In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that… — Vidkun Quisling Copy Share Image
“That there should be so great a concentration of vitality, so large a world contained within the mind of a single man,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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