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This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the first to have… — Richard St. Barbe Baker
It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole. — Moses Finley
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
Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ...When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have… — Edward Wilmot Blyden
Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of the atmosphere, of… — Justus von Liebig
To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his… — C.S. Lewis
Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the… — Terry Pratchett
Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised… — Malcolm Muggeridge
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness… — Alfred North Whitehead
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives,… — Alfred North Whitehead
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more… — Bernard Pivot
Globally, as the nation-state becomes increasingly less meaningful - a provider of positive goods and more and more just an army and some domestic enforcement… — Rebecca Solnit
Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do… — Karl Marx
Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised. — Julian Baggini
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I… — Adam Gopnik
Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner. — Fran Lebowitz
I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid. — Peter James
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited… — William Crookes
The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that… — Anthony Burgess
There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention. — Robert Bourassa
The Government which attacks its own innocent subjects has no claim to be called a civilised government. Bear in mind, such a government does not… — Lala Lajpat Rai
[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages.… — Imran Khan

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