Civilisation Quote by Alec-Tweedie

A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.

— William Hurrell Mallock

Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.

— William Butler Yeats

Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is called, which…

— Lord Chesterfield

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and…

— Indira Gandhi

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

— John Ruskin

We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy…

— Terry Eagleton

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

— Claude McKay

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

— Van Jones

We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy…

— Terry Eagleton

No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

— Tariq Ramadan

“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of…

— Alexander von Humboldt