Civilisation Quotes
188 quotes by 168 authors
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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
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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
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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
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The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
— James Buchan
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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
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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
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letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
— Thomas Jefferson
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...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
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Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
— Vera Brittain
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.
— John Dewey
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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
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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
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[The Koran is one of] the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known.
— William Muir
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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
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It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation.
— Pratibha Patil
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