Civilisation Quotes

188 quotes by 168 authors

As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole… — Annie Besant
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the… — Annie Besant
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls. — Bill Bryson
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. — James Buchan
We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation, to represent and… — David Cameron
Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson
...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the… — Yehudi Menuhin
Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation. — Andrew Carnegie
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go. — Vera Brittain
No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one… — Swami Vivekananda
What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our… — Carl Sagan
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of… — Arthur Balfour
With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way and that. Each… — Ellsworth Huntington
The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind. — John Dewey
It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny fraction of the… — Michio Kaku
Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
[The Koran is one of] the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known. — William Muir
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving… — Humphry Davy
It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation. — Pratibha Patil

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