“Although we live in a civilised society, the business world remains a jungle.” — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum 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
After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what… — African Spir 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
Civilisation is slippery, the word has multiple and contested meanings. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most significant intellectual trend of the eighteenth century was that towards what we now label 'Romanticism'. Within this often rather… — Malcolm Chapman Copy Share Image
We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both… — Richard O'Brien 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
The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy. — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South… — P. W. Botha Copy Share Image
Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, an Indian university must regard itself as one of the living organs of national reconstruction. It must discover the best… — Syama Prasad Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has… — Horatio Bottomley Copy Share Image
“Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.” — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“Our civilisation being what it is, you've got to spent eight hours out of every twenty-four as a mixture between an imbecile… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens? — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away. — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured… — African Spir 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
Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that… — Vidkun Quisling Copy Share Image
