“All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers.… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would… — Anandi Gopal Joshi Copy Share Image
My theory is that hip-hop is the most advanced version of civilisation on earth, and we are here to usher the rest… — KRS-One 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
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
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
“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 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
The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“The increase of knowledge has forced the thinker to specialise, with the result that there is nobody capable to deal with civilisation… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible… — V. S. Naipaul 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
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
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
It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten.… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by… — H. Jay Dinshah Copy Share Image
Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans. — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
“...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.” — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
The economic system that represents our civilisation will one day end, too. We'll be inside a museum - the great museum of… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
Civilisation never dies, it may change, but it is eternal. Where the paddy field is born on the dry river bed of… — Ritwik Ghatak Copy Share Image
“You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to touch you.… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
[The Koran is one of] the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known. — William Muir Copy Share Image
I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point… — Lennart Meri Copy Share Image
Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well? — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Indian civilisation does not distinguish in terms of religion. We are an impossible achievement in the world and I'm very proud to… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
“In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
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