“Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.” — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“It is because nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation.” — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“Although we live in a civilised society, the business world remains a jungle.” — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Copy Share Image
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation. — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
“... the very least one requires for civilisation to survive is an adequate supply of sound wines.” — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Copy Share Image
I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are other, civilised ways of dealing with the matter," Dllenahkh insisted. Darithiven looked at him with pity. "Then, by your definition,… — Karen Lord Copy Share Image
Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will… — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. — Albert Schweitzer 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
MARRIAGE, A very good way to promote civilisation -- if you get a good wife you will be happy, if you get… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built… — Donald Watson 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
Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Don't you agree that there must be something radically wrong with a civilisation, society, theory of life - call it what you… — Catherine Carswell Copy Share Image
What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For neo-conservatism is a quintessentially Jewish project: a re-sanctification in everyday life of the core values of western civilisation, and the achievement… — Melanie Phillips 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
The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
“Soon the people will decide that they want their land to be a part of today's monstrous world, and once that happens,… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
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
In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are… — Arundhati Roy 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 forests were crippled, the wheat fields vanished; in place of the grass there reappeared stone and drifting sand. Men perished and… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
