Civilisation Quotes

188 Civilisation quotes by 166 unique authors

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has… — John Millington Synge
Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga. — Swami Vivekananda
If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and… — James Hansen
The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce. When… — Richard Heinberg
Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technological civilisation makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific… — Werner Herzog
COâ‚‚ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere. — Gore Vidal
Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward. — Winston Churchill
The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply the most visible… — Jonathon Porritt
A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation — Julian Burnside
On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces… — Alexis de Tocqueville
In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as… — Oswald Chambers
Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance. — Eugen Sandow
The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must free ourselves from… — Edward Glaeser
The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply. Eating regularly is… — Gwynne Dyer
Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods.… — Mahathir Mohamad
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of… — Frederick Soddy
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another. — Lennart Meri
The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate… — Alan Moore
Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world. — Alexis Carrel

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