Civilisation Quotes

188 Civilisation quotes by 166 unique authors

Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the… — Vidkun Quisling
Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation… — Samuel P. Huntington
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race — Alfred Russel Wallace
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who… — David Deutsch
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational… — Julius Evola
I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation, — David LaChapelle
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate.… — Leslie Charteris
If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must… — Harry Seidler
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his… — C L R James
Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another. — Sivananda
I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel… — V.S. Naipaul
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities… — Isabella Beeton
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of… — Greg Egan
Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by lower standards than… — H. Jay Dinshah
Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. — Winston Churchill
The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive. — C. G. Weeramantry
The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature. — Swami Vivekananda
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation — Moshe Safdie
Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in… — Unknown Author
We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of… — Robert Harris
No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done during… — Christopher Dawson
I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed. — Frederick Soddy

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