“Civilisation required a contribution – or a sacrifice, if that’s what you wanted to call it.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them. — Pim Fortuyn Copy Share Image
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended, — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith. — Mary Beard 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
“Modern civilisation does not generate an ethical framework for human life.” — Simon du Plock Copy Share Image
People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations. — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
“Modern civilisation has based its specific foundation on the principle of liberty which states that man is not a mere instrument to… — Altiero Spinelli Copy Share Image
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
“If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates… — Anonymous 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
Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Al Jazeera should understand the societies, should understand the culture of the civilisation, should understand the dynamics of the societies, should be… — Wadah Khanfar 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
“I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me. Is it my age, I wonder, or the age… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“Modern mass culture, aimed at the "consumer", the civilization of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities… — Rosa Campbell Praed Copy Share Image
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of… — Anonymous 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
Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on… — Kenneth Clark 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
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
There exists in the world today, and has existed for thousands of years, a body of enlightened humans united in what might… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
“Nature without civilisation is frightening; and civilisation without nature is even more frightening!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Climate change is an existential threat to our economy, and ultimately to civilisation as we know it. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens? — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.” — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
