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
Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
Words make a world of difference. Over time, they become charged with inference and allusion and, deployed effectively, they have the power… — Ephraim Mirvis 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
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate — Tom Burke 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
“They also carried on commerce with other nations. All this clearly shows, as Heer has remarked, that they had at this early… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less… — Edward Gibbon 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
I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either… — Thomas B. Macaulay 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
What do we value more: an economic system which privileges profit above all other considerations, or the continued existence of human civilisation… — Owen Jones 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
Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The nature of civilisation everywhere was such that, even with the Greeks, it diverted people’s minds away from the reality of death.” — Antal Szerb Copy Share Image
“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.' — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South… — P. W. Botha Copy Share Image
“Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying… — Kate Atkinson 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
Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
