When we say Tamil, we are not talking of a language but an entire civilisation. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“... the very least one requires for civilisation to survive is an adequate supply of sound wines.” — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Copy Share Image
“A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is because nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation.” — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“Although we live in a civilised society, the business world remains a jungle.” — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Copy Share Image
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation. — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
“Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.” — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I like looking at the countryside as well as anyone... a little countryside goes a long way, but it's almost like the… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“If we desire a certain type of civilisation and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine… — John Buchan 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
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
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
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
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
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
Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most significant intellectual trend of the eighteenth century was that towards what we now label 'Romanticism'. Within this often rather… — Malcolm Chapman Copy Share Image
“The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase… — Thomas Henry Huxley 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
It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny… — Michio Kaku 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
Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The effects could be sufficiently severe to threaten the fabric of civilisation.” — Greg Breining Copy Share Image
I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
