The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint?” — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
“Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.” — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Civilisation is slippery, the word has multiple and contested meanings. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“country that doesn’t grow its own wine grapes has no claim to civilisation.” — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.” — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“Some moments arrive and we wish to see no trace at all from the civilisation! And such moments are the best proof… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Western ‘civilisation’ has been based on the ideas of ancient Greece, where the concept of ‘democracy’ (government by the people) assumed that… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Don’t you think a certain amount of civilisation is necessary before picture-frames will become remunerative? I don’t think you could live by… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life,… — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet… — William Muir Copy Share Image
Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to… — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
“There is the familiar figure of Orosius, defending the barbarians with the argument that when the Roman empire was founded it was… — Eileen Power Copy Share Image
“We know we are a species obsessed with itself and its own past and origins. We know we are capable of removing… — Kathleen Jamie 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
“...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
“And soon, as Tacitus put it, the Britons were dressing up in togas and taking their first steps on the path to… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam,… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“I am not a simpleton', he said, 'nor am I a childish old man. I dislike childishness and all such rubbish. I… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent… — Laurence Boldt 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
“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
“I thought I was getting away from politics for a while. But I now realise that the vuvuzela is to these World… — Richard Calland Copy Share Image
“Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer? — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation… — African Spir Copy Share Image
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