“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
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
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
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
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
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
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 possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings… — Vera Brittain 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
Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man. — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
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
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
One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The presence of the policeman around the corner is the only thing that keeps us civilised.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations.… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat. — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea. — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
