“Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Turns out we've been eating the wrong things...since the dawn of civilisation — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. — 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
The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South… — P. W. Botha Copy Share Image
“Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“In any case civilisation has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
“The nature of civilisation everywhere was such that, even with the Greeks, it diverted people’s minds away from the reality of death.” — Antal Szerb Copy Share Image
...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility -… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Our use of the phrase 'The Dark Ages' to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North… — Arthur Kemp Copy Share Image
“I find forgiveness overrated. There are times and places when it’s appropriate. But not when the demand that you forgive is used… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“The Norweigian philosopher Tonnesen said that to think about anything but death is evasion. Society, art, culture, the whole of civilisation is… — Sven Lindqvist Copy Share Image
China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw… — Martin Jacques 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . . — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
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