Civilisation Quote by Mehmet Murat ildan

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to the most…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“In the presence of...civil war, to testify to humanity!...to prove that above royalties, above revolutions, above earthly questions, there is the immense emotion of…

— Victor Hugo

“There are demons upon this earth. They live in our hearts and minds.”

— A.G. Riddle

“The most barbarous and the most fantastic rites and the strangest myths translate some human need, some aspect of life, either individual or social.”

— Émile Durkheim

“We all have our demons, our weaknesses, our own crosses to bear. Often, we are closer to the devil than we think.”

— Hanna Peach

“We who have been hunted through the rapids of life, torn from our former roots, always driven to the end and obliged to begin…

— Stefan Zweig

“That at present, in the consecrated space at the very summit of the hierarchy of this world there exists a godlike, demonlike ruler whose…

— Shunji Ohkura

“Civilsation is the sleight of hand that conceals our natures from ourselves.”

— Salman Rushdie

“I recalled something I’d read a long time ago about Satan. When he appeared, it wouldn’t be as a demon but as an ordinary-looking…

— Steven Ramirez

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and…

— R. Thomas Ashbrook

“After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked…

— Osamu Dazai