...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something…

“Soon there will be war. Millions will burn. Millions will perish in sickness and misery. Why does one death matter against so many? Because…

— Alan Moore

“But Anja. I hear Anja's voice. Maybe I am insane. I hear her crying. I see her alone in the trees. I remember being…

— Sergio Troncoso

“You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to touch you. So easy…

— Ann Leckie

What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?

— Ann Leckie

When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.

— Ann Leckie

“Do you even know,” she said, and I could tell from the sound of her voice that she was about to cry, “can you…

— Ann Leckie

“I find forgiveness overrated. There are times and places when it’s appropriate. But not when the demand that you forgive is used to keep…

— Ann Leckie

“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

It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that follow. The…

— Ross Garnaut

The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from…

— Anonymous

The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and…

— Henry Williamson

“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”

— Adam Smith

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

— Moshe Safdie

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to…

— Roy Harper

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for…

— Benjamin Disraeli