No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
“I find forgiveness overrated. There are times and places when it’s appropriate. But not when the demand that you forgive is used… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
“The only true solutions to complex systemic problems are piecemeal, multi-pronged answers, and they will vary wildly from forest to desert, from… — John Bierce Copy Share Image
Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
We don't know the spiritual advancements long-term veganism - over generations - would have for human life. It would be certainly a… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well? — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
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