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
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
“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
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw 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
What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them. — Pim Fortuyn Copy Share Image
I am one of those who believe that there is no permanent home for even a section of the Bantu in the… — P. W. Botha Copy Share Image
A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must… — Edward Glaeser Copy Share Image
Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only… — Winston Churchill 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
“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
Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and… — Susan Blackmore 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
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
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 used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services… — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
