Civilisation Quotes

188 Civilisation quotes by 166 unique authors

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
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 never dies, it may change, but it is eternal. Where the paddy field is born on the dry river bed of Titash, there begins… — Ritwik Ghatak
Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which… — Peter Greenaway
Turns out we've been eating the wrong things...since the dawn of civilisation — Lewis Black
I really feel like civilisation's already over. It's not ending but it's already done. We're all addicted to the concept that humanity equals civilisation and… — Serj Tankian

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