History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technological civilisation makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation.… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended… — Shirley Hazzard 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
It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
“Nature without civilisation is frightening; and civilisation without nature is even more frightening!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
“...it is plain that the proportion of celibates was high in the Roman empire and that the fall in the fertility of… — Eileen Power 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
I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of… — Anthony Burgess 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
What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human civilisation! — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great… — Austen Henry Layard 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
The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single… — Arnold J. Toynbee 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
Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in… — Eugen Sandow Copy Share Image
The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that… — David Mamet 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
