It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a… — John Hughlings Jackson Copy Share Image
The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that… — Vidkun Quisling Copy Share Image
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point… — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well? — Emile Zola 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
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
“The thumb may look like an ordinary finger, truly it is a miraculous gift from God! If all the fingers were long… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
I am now certain that we have no alternative but to reduce urgently the levels of carbon that we are still pumping… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset 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
To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
[The Koran is one of] the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known. — William Muir 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
“Civilisation isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly,… — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
Indian civilisation does not distinguish in terms of religion. We are an impossible achievement in the world and I'm very proud to… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
“In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The economic system that represents our civilisation will one day end, too. We'll be inside a museum - the great museum of… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our… — Greg Egan 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
Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Civilisation never dies, it may change, but it is eternal. Where the paddy field is born on the dry river bed of… — Ritwik Ghatak Copy Share Image
“You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to touch you.… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by… — H. Jay Dinshah Copy Share Image
It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten.… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
“...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.” — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans. — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“If we desire a certain type of civilisation and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
I like looking at the countryside as well as anyone... a little countryside goes a long way, but it's almost like the… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
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