Civilisation Quotes

188 Civilisation quotes by 166 unique authors

The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of… — John Stuart Mill
This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without meaning or foundation,… — Viktor Schauberger
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in… — John Ralston Saul
It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby… — John Hughlings Jackson
Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It… — Sigmund Freud
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance… — Daniel Barenboim
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and… — Shirley Hazzard
There's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilisation, that's out there exploring the stars â€¦… — Elon Musk
Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that — Tony Abbott
Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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

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