Civilisation Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If Europe today accounts for just over 7 per cent of the world’s population, produces around 25 per cent of global GDP and has…

— Angela Merkel

If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that…

— African Spir

Europe has the potential to pioneer and supply a sustainable worldwide economy.

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier

That a country has a strong civil society is, I believe, particularly necessary for good development.

— Winnie Byanyima

We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development…

— Aga Khan IV

Globalisation can provide the route for the development of a sustainable and prosperous planetary society in the next generation, provided that globalisation itself becomes…

— Peter Ellyard

I am keenly aware that the wealth and power of the European nations are the result not only of their having ships and powerful…

— Sun Yat-sen

Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world…

— Albert Camus

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

— Jacques Ellul

“European civilization is based on diversity, not on unity. To attempt cultural unification of Europe would mean to strangle its soul and spirit. European…

— Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi

The structures in Europe in a globalising economy need to be modernised, need to be more integrated, need to be stronger.

— George Papandreou