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Quotes about Civilisation

"CIVILIZATION ADVANCES BY EXTENDING THE
NUMBER OF IMPORTANT OPERATIONS WHICH
WE CAN PERFORM WITHOUT THINKING OF
THEM."
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
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Civilisation has ever
accompanied emigration and
conquest - the conflict of
opinion, of religion, or of race
Alfred Russel Wallace
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The Great Lie is that this is
civilization. Its not civilized.
It has literally been the most
blood-thirsty brutalizing
system ever imposed upon
this planet This is not
civilization, this is the Great
Lie. Or if it does represent
civilization, and that is truly
what civilization is, then the
Great Lie is that civilization
is good for us.
— John Trudell
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"ARCHITECTURE BELONGS TO CULTURE, NOT TO
CIVILIZATION."
ALVAR AALTO
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is
the distance man
has placed between
himself and his
excreta.
Brian Aldiss
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Successfully (whatever that may
mean) or unsuccessfully, we all
overact the part of our favorite
character in fiction.
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Civilization begins with order, grows
with liberty, and dies with
chaos.
- Will Durant
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CIVILIZATION IS A METHOD OF LIVING.
AN ATTITUDE OF EQUAL RESPECT FOR
MEN'.
—MANE ADDAMS
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What do I think of
Western civilisation? I
think it would be a very
good idea.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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(1869-1948)
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421
years free of war.
(Will Durant)
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CiNi(ization is the art of (Wing in towns of
such size the CA'erpne does not know -
e•oeryne else.
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CiNi(ization is the art of (Wing in towns of
such size the eA'eryne does not know -
e•oeryne else.
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Ancient Egypt was a Negro
Civilization. The history of Black
Africa will remain suspended in air
and cannot be written correctly until
African historians dare to connect it
with the history of Egypt.
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"CIVILIZATION IS LIKE A THIN LAYER OF ICE
UPON A DEEP OCEAN OF CHAOS AND
DARKNESS."
WERNER HERZOG
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ONE OF THEUNDICTMENTS OE CIVILIZATIONS
ISSTHAT HAPPINESSLØNDüNTELLIGENCE ARE
SO RARELY FOUNDYIN\THE SAME PERSON.
- WiLLIAM FEATHER
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Visitors get to see up close
the objects of the popes
that had such great
Iniluence on Western
civilization. Some of the
objects date back to the
third century and some are
still used today.
Jeffrey Wyatt
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CIVILIZATION IS A METHOD OF UVING,
AN ATTITUDE OF
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IT ONLY AN
UNCIVILIZED
WORLD
WOULD WORSHIP
CIVILIZATION.
Henry S. Haskins
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We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and irrational. Votes: 6

Terry Eagleton
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Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race Votes: 5

Alfred Russel Wallace
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Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason why culture remains so politically vital. Civilisation cannot get on with culture, and it cannot get on without it. Votes: 5

Terry Eagleton
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Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle. Votes: 4

Aleister Crowley
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The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. Votes: 4

Nikola Tesla
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Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation. Votes: 4

Harry Seidler
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Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource. Votes: 4

Al Gore
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It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems. Votes: 4

Gregory Bateson
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Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation. Votes: 4

Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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Civilisation is a conspiracy. Votes: 3

John Buchan
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Civilisation and profits go hand in hand. Votes: 3

Calvin Coolidge
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Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat. Votes: 3

Ernest Bevin
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Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.... Votes: 3

William Butler Yeats
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What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them. Votes: 3

Pim Fortuyn
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Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race. Votes: 3

Alfred Russel Wallace
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This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. Votes: 3

Polly Toynbee
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People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations. Votes: 3

Bessie Head
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Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life. Votes: 3

Ernst Haeckel
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[The Koran is one of] the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known. Votes: 3

William Muir
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The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself. Votes: 3

African Spir
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Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another. Votes: 3

Lennart Meri
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Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind. Votes: 3

William Hurrell Mallock
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Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance. Votes: 3

Eugen Sandow
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Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations. Votes: 3

Alec-Tweedie
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Civilisation never dies, it may change, but it is eternal. Where the paddy field is born on the dry river bed of Titash, there begins another civilisation. Votes: 3

Ritwik Ghatak
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Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. Votes: 3

Greg Egan
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Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law. Votes: 3

John Buchan
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Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis. Votes: 3

Zygmunt Bauman
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Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it. Votes: 3

Niall Ferguson
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Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation. Votes: 3

Frederick Soddy
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It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. Votes: 3

John Millington Synge
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I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere. Votes: 3

Paul Allen
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Civilisation isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily. It vanishes far more quickly than he even would have thought possible. Votes: 3

Steven Galloway
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In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. Votes: 3

Henry James Sumner Maine
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The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation. Votes: 3

Peter Garrett
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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 and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe. Votes: 3

Winston Churchill
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The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before. Votes: 3

William Hague
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Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion. Votes: 3

Paul Davies
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As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has been destroyed. Our dead heroes will have won immortality. Civilisation will have gained new vitality. Humanity will have entered upon a richer heritage. Votes: 3

Horatio Bottomley
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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours? Votes: 3

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies. Votes: 3

John Ralston Saul
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Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different. Votes: 3

Thich Nhat Hanh
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Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different. Votes: 3

Nhat Hanh
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We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation, to represent and promote the values of European civilisation in the world, advance our shared interests by using our collective power to open markets, and to build a strong economic base across the whole of Europe. Votes: 3

David Cameron
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You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope. Votes: 3

Nhat Hanh
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I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation. Votes: 1

David LaChapelle
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Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended. Votes: 1

Alan Furst
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The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. Votes: 1

James Buchan
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The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction. Votes: 1

Paul Keating
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind. Votes: 1

Xi Jinping
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Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it. Votes: 1

Amish Tripathi
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If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into. Votes: 1

Michael Leunig
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I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation. Votes: 1

Rupert Murdoch
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As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off. Votes: 1

David Mitchell
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In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do. Votes: 1

Roy Harper
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Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer. Votes: 1

George Bernard Shaw
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Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things. Votes: 1

Muhammad Yunus
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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 over the whole earth, maketh the clouds his chariot, and reigns above the waterfloods as a king. Votes: 1

Annie Besant
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My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. Votes: 1

Christopher Hitchens
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Environmental activism against the resource industry is widespread all over the world, but at the same time we have to realise that these are basic materials on which civilisation depends. We need to tap natural resources in a sustainable manner. Votes: 1

Anil Agarwal
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We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television. Votes: 1

Richard O'Brien
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You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope. Votes: 1

Thich Nhat Hanh
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As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is so cool, I can transform the earth and I can produce all this wealth. But we're blinded by our success in a naive way. There's more to life, actually, and I think the sustainability issue is also helpful in reminding us about that. Votes: 1

Tino Sehgal
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Curiosity is the engine of civilisation Votes: 0

Peter Cundill
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Education is the transformation of civilisation Votes: 0

Will Durant
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I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick. Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley
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Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation. Votes: 0

Andrew Carnegie
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CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere. Votes: 0

Gore Vidal
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The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation. Votes: 0

Theodore Zeldin
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Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world. Votes: 0

Alexis Carrel
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation. Votes: 0

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was. Votes: 0

Friedrich August von Hayek
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You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation. Votes: 0

Iris Murdoch
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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation. Votes: 0

Voltaire
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Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation. Votes: 0

Matthew De Abaitua
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I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation, Votes: 0

David LaChapelle
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The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . . Votes: 0

Susan Sontag
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson
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This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced. Votes: 0

Al Gore
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Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that Votes: 0

Tony Abbott
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Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu'un poisson sans bicyclette. Votes: 0

Pierre Desproges
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The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda
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Turns out we've been eating the wrong things...since the dawn of civilisation Votes: 0

Lewis Black
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Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda
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Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go. Votes: 0

Vera Brittain
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What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens? Votes: 0

Ann Leckie
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A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation. Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte
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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw
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Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation Votes: 0

Julian Burnside
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To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell
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The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy. Votes: 0

B. R. Ambedkar
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We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation Votes: 0

Moshe Safdie
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The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation. Votes: 0

Akihito
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letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson
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The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles. Votes: 0

Richard Flanagan
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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo
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What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human civilisation! Votes: 0

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
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And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer? Votes: 0

James S.A. Corey
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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi
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Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill
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In any case civilisation has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill
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It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation. Votes: 0

Pratibha Patil
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The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind. Votes: 0

John Dewey
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The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive. Votes: 0

C. G. Weeramantry
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Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth. Votes: 0

Vladimir Putin
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women. Votes: 0

Helen Keller
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The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. Votes: 0

Albert Schweitzer
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The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for cariety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans. Votes: 0

Ann Leckie
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Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended, Votes: 0

Alan Furst
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A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate Votes: 0

Tom Burke
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Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes. Votes: 0

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well? Votes: 0

Emile Zola
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Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness. Votes: 0

D. H. Lawrence
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If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious! Votes: 0

Richard Dawkins
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Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another. Votes: 0

Sivananda
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived. Votes: 0

Florence Nightingale
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Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction. Votes: 0

David Mitchell
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If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation. Votes: 0

Elon Musk
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Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi
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Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another. Votes: 0

Sivananda Saraswati
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The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole. Votes: 0

Arnold J. Toynbee
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values. Votes: 0

Tariq Ramadan
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I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation. Votes: 0

Anthony Burgess
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Indian civilisation does not distinguish in terms of religion. We are an impossible achievement in the world and I'm very proud to be an Indian. Votes: 0

Shah Rukh Khan
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes. Votes: 0

Kate Atkinson
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We are embarking on the biggest project in human civilisation," he said. "We must ensure that the United States ... is part of such post-2012 arrangements. Votes: 0

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
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The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli
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Madame Gherardi maintained that love, like most other blessings of civilisation, was a chimaera which we desire the more, the further removed we are from Nature. Votes: 0

W. G. Sebald
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Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom? Votes: 0

Herman Melville
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The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities. Votes: 0

Isaiah Berlin
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We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation. Votes: 0

Thomas B. Macaulay
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Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't. Votes: 0

Peter Greenaway
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Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software." Votes: 0

Greg Egan
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Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill
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The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation. Votes: 0

Julian Assange
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If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy. Votes: 0

Harry Seidler
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality. Votes: 0

Rachel Cusk
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The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements of the Inca civilisation. Votes: 0

Peter Shaffer
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I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation. Votes: 0

John Hanning Speke
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The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands. Votes: 0

P. W. Botha
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Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story? Votes: 0

Simon Callow
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Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human. Votes: 0

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies our planet as home to life. Votes: 0

Brian Cox
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The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation. Votes: 0

Jay L. Garfield
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The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country. Votes: 0

Baron de Montesquieu
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Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena. Votes: 0

H. Jay Dinshah
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It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation. Votes: 0

John Hughlings Jackson
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Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the doom of our entire civilisation. Votes: 0

Vidkun Quisling
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We've been taught that the renaissance was one of the great golden ages of civilisation. The renaissance was not a golden age, it was the end of a golden age. Votes: 0

Douglas Rushkoff
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At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen. Votes: 0

Brian Cox
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I like looking at the countryside as well as anyone... a little countryside goes a long way, but it's almost like the DNA of a civilisation is in its cities. Votes: 0

Jonathan Meades
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All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease. Votes: 0

William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929 Votes: 0

John Vaillant
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It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all. Votes: 0

William Winwood Reade
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There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress. Votes: 0

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty. Votes: 0

Matthew Arnold
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It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience. Votes: 0

Alain Ducasse
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Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation But our souls live in the stone age Votes: 0

Nizar Qabbani
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The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilisation from the barbarians. Votes: 0

Eric Corley
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Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced together elements absolutely and inherently antagonistic to each other! Votes: 0

Rosa Campbell Praed
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Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love. Votes: 0

Matt Haig
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The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind. Votes: 0

Henry Williamson
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Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being. Votes: 0

Andrei Tarkovsky
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Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive the principles of art of past centuries can lead only to the production of stillborn works.

Wassily Kandinsky
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Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.

Anandi Gopal Joshi
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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 advance over the eye...(but) what do we do in our society, in our civilisation, to continue this process?

Daniel Barenboim
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Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.

Roy Baumeister
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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 its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage.

Alexis de Tocqueville
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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

Mahatma Gandhi
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No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil society as well as we would challenge Christian-based theocracy, or any other form of bigotry.

Maajid Nawaz
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If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed

African Spir
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There's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilisation, that's out there exploring the stars … compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.

Elon Musk
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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 Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.

Winston Churchill
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We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our own lines, unembarrassed by what Western civilisation has to teach us and unhampered by the institutions which the West has imposed.

Chittaranjan Das
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The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply. Eating regularly is a non-negotiable activity and countries that cannot feed their people are unlikely to be reasonable about it.

Gwynne Dyer
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Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who discriminate, or rewards the undiscriminating, is worth very little and has only callow, childish pleasures.

Richard Davenport-Hines
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Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technological civilisation makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured.

Werner Herzog
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Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.

Samuel P. Huntington
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Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population - weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example.

Susan Blackmore
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The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must free ourselves from our tendency to see cities as their buildings, and remember that the real city is made of flesh, not concrete.

Edward Glaeser
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I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.

Thomas B. Macaulay
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Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

Florence Nightingale
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The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

Alan Moore
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What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.

Edward Mayhew
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Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.

Peter Greenaway
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I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and intellectual civilisation to be secure, not because I have any sympathy with the coarse-grained herd who would menace the civilisation if not placated by sops.

H. P. Lovecraft
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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 to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.

Malcolm Muggeridge
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