When we say Tamil, we are not talking of a language but an entire civilisation. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . . — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human civilisation! — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber 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
“So now what?” I ask. She is quiet for a long time, long enough that I assume she’s gone to sleep. “I… — Daniel H. Wilson 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
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'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children -… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken… — Benjamin Disraeli 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 spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze,… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing,… — Terry Eagleton 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
The razor-sharp line of division that exists between political ideologies in our own country in the United States, I think it's clear… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our… — Chittaranjan Das Copy Share Image
So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilisation, that's out there exploring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, 'When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric,… — Mark Gevisser Copy Share Image
“Do you even know,” she said, and I could tell from the sound of her voice that she was about to cry,… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny… — Michio Kaku 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
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires… — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
“One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Turns out we've been eating the wrong things...since the dawn of civilisation — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
