On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers.… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
“In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
We've been taught that the renaissance was one of the great golden ages of civilisation. The renaissance was not a golden age,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would… — Anandi Gopal Joshi Copy Share Image
My theory is that hip-hop is the most advanced version of civilisation on earth, and we are here to usher the rest… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The increase of knowledge has forced the thinker to specialise, with the result that there is nobody capable to deal with civilisation… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but… — Annie Besant 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
The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to… — Richard Heinberg 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
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
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
The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need… — Jay L. Garfield 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
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
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
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
“The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.” — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive. — C. G. Weeramantry Copy Share Image
Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a runaway train without break heading towards a dustbin of history. It's a a sad indictment that the bedrock… — Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom Copy Share Image
Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
“the march of civilisation has given the modern girl a vocabulary and an ability to use it which her grandmother never had” — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching… — Heather James Copy Share Image
If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious,… — Michael Leunig 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
“That there should be so great a concentration of vitality, so large a world contained within the mind of a single man,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
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