The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy. — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“Modern civilisation does not generate an ethical framework for human life.” — Simon du Plock Copy Share Image
And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer? — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.” — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles. — Richard Flanagan 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
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
“...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great… — Austen Henry Layard Copy Share Image
I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation.… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
“Soon the people will decide that they want their land to be a part of today's monstrous world, and once that happens,… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
“In fact, the words perfectibilité and civilisation made their first appearance in any European language in the 1750s. The adjective ‘social’ acquired… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“This — this is the dawn of a new day in human living. At the climax of that civilisation which had its… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Girls say to me, very reasonably, 'why isn't it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bunch of… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“country that doesn’t grow its own wine grapes has no claim to civilisation.” — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
“Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.” — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Civilisation is slippery, the word has multiple and contested meanings. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
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