Civilisation Quotes

“Civilisation and top hats bore me.”

— W.N.P. Barbellion

I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.

— Aldous Huxley

“As civilisation advances, so does indifference.”

— Matt Haig

“Civilized people don't feel .”

— Mervyn Peake

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

— Adam Smith

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Curiosity is the engine of civilisation

— Peter Cundill

Education is the transformation of civilisation

— Will Durant

Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation

— Julian Burnside

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

— Victor Hugo

“The effects could be sufficiently severe to threaten the fabric of civilisation.”

— Greg Breining

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

— Polly Toynbee

“Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife”

— Scott Lynch

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

— Helen Keller

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

— Theodore Zeldin

Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made…

— Brian Cox

On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and…

— Albert Schweitzer

All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

We are embarking on the biggest project in human civilisation," he said. "We must ensure that the United States ... is part…

— Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be…

— Richard Dawkins

“But that was civilisation, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy…

— Joe Abercrombie

It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in…

— John Hawkes

We don't know the spiritual advancements long-term veganism - over generations - would have for human life. It would be certainly a…

— Donald Watson

“How quickly all the advantages of technological civilisation are wiped out by a domestic squabble. At the beginning of human history, as…

— Alain de Botton

I really feel like civilisation's already over. It's not ending but it's already done. We're all addicted to the concept that humanity…

— Serj Tankian

“I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc... It…

— Voltaire

Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information…

— Paul Davies

India has millions of internally displaced people. And now, they are putting their bodies on the line and fighting back. They are…

— Arundhati Roy

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Perhaps the most significant intellectual trend of the eighteenth century was that towards what we now label 'Romanticism'. Within this often rather…

— Malcolm Chapman

“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

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will…

— Leslie Charteris

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but…

— Winston Churchill

“In fact, the words perfectibilité and civilisation made their first appearance in any European language in the 1750s. The adjective ‘social’ acquired…

— Pankaj Mishra

“This — this is the dawn of a new day in human living. At the climax of that civilisation which had its…

— H.G. Wells

“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

Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.…

— Carl Jung