The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility -… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North… — Arthur Kemp Copy Share Image
“I find forgiveness overrated. There are times and places when it’s appropriate. But not when the demand that you forgive is used… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Our use of the phrase 'The Dark Ages' to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured… — African Spir Copy Share Image
China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“The Norweigian philosopher Tonnesen said that to think about anything but death is evasion. Society, art, culture, the whole of civilisation is… — Sven Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“Civilisation consists in giving something a name that doesn't belong to it and then dreaming over the result. And the false name… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both… — Richard O'Brien 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
[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what… — African Spir Copy Share Image
No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching… — Edward Mayhew Copy Share Image
Environmental activism against the resource industry is widespread all over the world, but at the same time we have to realise that… — Anil Agarwal Copy Share Image
one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being… — Dervla Murphy 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
“To save our dying earth, any government which is not environmentalist must go because on earth there are thousands of governments but… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres… — William Hague 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
Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has… — Horatio Bottomley Copy Share Image
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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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
Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
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