Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Climate change is an existential threat to our economy, and ultimately to civilisation as we know it. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended, — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them. — Pim Fortuyn Copy Share Image
“Civilisation required a contribution – or a sacrifice, if that’s what you wanted to call it.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith. — Mary Beard 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, 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
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
“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
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
Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth. — Vladimir Putin 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“I have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're looking into the void. We… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I thought I was getting away from politics for a while. But I now realise that the vuvuzela is to these World… — Richard Calland Copy Share Image
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