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Civilisation Quotes by Winston Churchill
- Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them…
- Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.
- Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.
- Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our…
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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… — Annie Besant
- Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but… — Annie Besant
- America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping… — Bill Bryson
- The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. — James Buchan
- We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation,… — David Cameron
- Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson
- ...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility -… — Yehudi Menuhin
- Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation. — Andrew Carnegie
- Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go. — Vera Brittain
- No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look… — Swami Vivekananda
- What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a… — Carl Sagan