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
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
“The presence of the policeman around the corner is the only thing that keeps us civilised.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“If a complete free market seemed efficacious in principle, in practice it had not delivered the basic services necessary for a country… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes… — Alfred North Whitehead 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
To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading… — Indira Gandhi 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
At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in… — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die,… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
You have to protect your food, otherwise someone else takes it! There is no divinity in here! But there is divinity there:… — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more… — Jeff Lindsay 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
Globalisation can provide the route for the development of a sustainable and prosperous planetary society in the next generation, provided that globalisation… — Peter Ellyard Copy Share Image
Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class,… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The Government which attacks its own innocent subjects has no claim to be called a civilised government. Bear in mind, such a… — Lala Lajpat Rai Copy Share Image
Sex is probably one of the last forms of human expression to enjoy such a direct connection with nature. It might be… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat. — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“We now lay in towns, where nobody troubled us with questions; we had floated into civilised life, where people pass without salutation. ” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
