“Modern civilisation does not generate an ethical framework for human life.” — Simon du Plock Copy Share Image
The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy. — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“Civilisation required a contribution – or a sacrifice, if that’s what you wanted to call it.” — Stephen King 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
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
If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children -… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Modern civilisation has based its specific foundation on the principle of liberty which states that man is not a mere instrument to… — Altiero Spinelli Copy Share Image
People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations. — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
There's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilisation, that's out there exploring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And soon, as Tacitus put it, the Britons were dressing up in togas and taking their first steps on the path to… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technological civilisation makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“...it is plain that the proportion of celibates was high in the Roman empire and that the fall in the fertility of… — Eileen Power Copy Share Image
Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a… — Winston Churchill 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
“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
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
Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
There exists in the world today, and has existed for thousands of years, a body of enlightened humans united in what might… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
“I am not a simpleton', he said, 'nor am I a childish old man. I dislike childishness and all such rubbish. I… — Vita Sackville-West 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
“Nature without civilisation is frightening; and civilisation without nature is even more frightening!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens? — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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