Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention. — Robert Bourassa Copy Share Image
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty. — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid. — Peter James Copy Share Image
“It wasn't the wild animals that scared her, but the civilised ones.” — Heena Rathore P Copy Share Image
If I'm alone in the car and I fart, I still laugh at it. It's the little things that keep us civilised. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I am a very, very strong advocate of the notion that we shouldn't equate the arts with other aspects of infrastructure. They… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects… — Anthony Burgess 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
Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.I want an Australian vision of arts… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
Globally, as the nation-state becomes increasingly less meaningful - a provider of positive goods and more and more just an army and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war. — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society — Roy Jenkins Copy Share Image
The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I think you will agree the sign of a civilised society is a regular dining schedule. — Philippa Ballantine Copy Share Image
All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
