The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not.… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“All civilisations have a tendency toward narcissism, and the stronger the civilisation, the more clearly this tendency will appear. It spurs civilisations… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
In every island of the Aegaean Sea, on almost every barren rock I might say, are found abundant traces of a vast… — James Theodore Bent Copy Share Image
Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply.… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
I am one of those who believe that there is no permanent home for even a section of the Bantu in the… — P. W. Botha Copy Share Image
It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation,… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must… — Edward Glaeser Copy Share Image
As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but a civilisation… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“I thought to myself: this is how civilisation ends. Standards decline, accountability ends, the rule of law is impotent, the thugs take… — Adam Nevill Copy Share Image
This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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