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 spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze,… — Nikola Tesla 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
Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the… — Nizar Qabbani 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
“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
It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a… — John Millington Synge 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
Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply.… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I am one of those who believe that there is no permanent home for even a section of the Bantu in the… — P. W. Botha Copy Share Image
We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation,… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they… — Florence Nightingale 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
“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
“Western ‘civilisation’ has been based on the ideas of ancient Greece, where the concept of ‘democracy’ (government by the people) assumed that… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Some moments arrive and we wish to see no trace at all from the civilisation! And such moments are the best proof… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will… — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. — Albert Schweitzer 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
MARRIAGE, A very good way to promote civilisation -- if you get a good wife you will be happy, if you get… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“So now what?” I ask. She is quiet for a long time, long enough that I assume she’s gone to sleep. “I… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political… — Al Gore 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
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
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
“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
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
