I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon… — Frederick Soddy 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
“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
“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“All civilisations have a tendency toward narcissism, and the stronger the civilisation, the more clearly this tendency will appear. It spurs civilisations… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules… — Annie Besant 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
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
Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.' — Mary Beard 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
“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
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
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
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
On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“But that was civilisation, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
We are embarking on the biggest project in human civilisation," he said. "We must ensure that the United States ... is part… — Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Copy Share Image
I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are other, civilised ways of dealing with the matter," Dllenahkh insisted. Darithiven looked at him with pity. "Then, by your definition,… — Karen Lord Copy Share Image
Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances,… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
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