Civilisation Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilisation Civilization Culture Ideas Looks Scotland Scots Scottish
There are many things we can do with Scotland and, indeed, with others which would be hugely beneficial to both Scotland and to Ireland,… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
Scotland has a great deal to offer the world in terms of our approach to key economic and social issues. — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I believe in Scotland's place within the United Kingdom today as much as ever. — Ruth Davidson Copy Share Image
I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The thing that interests me most about Scotland is how we differ from our neighbours. How do our ambitions differ? What kind of society… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood or Welsh,… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Scotland has never ceased to amaze the world with its forward vision, bold action and great educational institutions. Nothing makes me more proud than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's definitely an interest in Scotland and what happened here. I think the rest of the world are fascinated by our history, and it's… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and… — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that follow. The… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind. — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
