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
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
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
It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
“The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but… — Annie Besant 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
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 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
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
Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“They also carried on commerce with other nations. All this clearly shows, as Heer has remarked, that they had at this early… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“We know we are a species obsessed with itself and its own past and origins. We know we are capable of removing… — Kathleen Jamie Copy Share Image
Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities… — Rosa Campbell Praed Copy Share Image
“Modern mass culture, aimed at the "consumer", the civilization of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“And soon, as Tacitus put it, the Britons were dressing up in togas and taking their first steps on the path to… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technological civilisation makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“...it is plain that the proportion of celibates was high in the Roman empire and that the fall in the fertility of… — Eileen Power Copy Share Image
Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam,… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
[T]he 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
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
“The thumb may look like an ordinary finger, truly it is a miraculous gift from God! If all the fingers were long… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
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