“... the very least one requires for civilisation to survive is an adequate supply of sound wines.” — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Copy Share Image
When we say Tamil, we are not talking of a language but an entire civilisation. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . . — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will… — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
MARRIAGE, A very good way to promote civilisation -- if you get a good wife you will be happy, if you get… — Nikhil Saluja 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 penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“Some moments arrive and we wish to see no trace at all from the civilisation! And such moments are the best proof… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Western ‘civilisation’ has been based on the ideas of ancient Greece, where the concept of ‘democracy’ (government by the people) assumed that… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our… — Chittaranjan Das Copy Share Image
No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Our civilisation being what it is, you've got to spent eight hours out of every twenty-four as a mixture between an imbecile… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me. Is it my age, I wonder, or the age… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Al Jazeera should understand the societies, should understand the culture of the civilisation, should understand the dynamics of the societies, should be… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
“Do you even know,” she said, and I could tell from the sound of her voice that she was about to cry,… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, 'When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric,… — Mark Gevisser Copy Share Image
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires… — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
“One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, an Indian university must regard itself as one of the living organs of national reconstruction. It must discover the best… — Syama Prasad Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human civilisation! — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Turns out we've been eating the wrong things...since the dawn of civilisation — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
