I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was… — Mahatma Gandhi 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 think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
There are messages about civilisations and we are trying to be true to history as much as possible. We wanted all this… — Mel Gibson 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
“If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities… — Rosa Campbell Praed Copy Share Image
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
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 Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation. — Anonymous 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
The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such… — John Desmond Bernal 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
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. — Polly Toynbee 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
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
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a… — John Millington Synge 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
All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
“Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
