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
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
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
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
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society — Roy Jenkins 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
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
Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick… — Gwyneth Paltrow 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
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
There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention. — Robert Bourassa 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
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
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
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
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
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
The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while. — Alfred North Whitehead 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
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
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
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
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
To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
