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
I am now certain that we have no alternative but to reduce urgently the levels of carbon that we are still pumping… — Jonathan Dimbleby 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
Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran 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
“And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles. — Richard Flanagan 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
Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances,… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're looking into the void. We… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North… — Arthur Kemp 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
Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself… — David Mitchell 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
“I am not a simpleton', he said, 'nor am I a childish old man. I dislike childishness and all such rubbish. I… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political… — Al Gore 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
The 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
