Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will… — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and… — Albert Schweitzer 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
“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
“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
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
“In any case civilisation has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . . — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint?” — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. — James Buchan 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
I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping… — Bill Bryson 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
“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
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
