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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
— Victor Hugo
A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate
— Tom Burke
The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.
— Theodore Zeldin
Civilisation is hooped together, brought
Under a rule, under the semblance of peace
By manifold illusion ... — William Butler Yeats
Under a rule, under the semblance of peace
By manifold illusion ... — William Butler Yeats
Fuck you, diet," said Stuart. "The diet schmeer is the end of civilisation as we know it.
— David Pratt
The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.
— Nadeem Aslam
... perhaps vulgarity is the price one pays for possessing no civilisation of one's own.
— Robert Payne
Thank God!' said Wimsey. 'Where there is a church, there is civilisation.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Nonetheless, we offer our forgiveness. What is the point in being a superior civilisation if you can't do that once in a while? I
— Alastair Reynolds
Every civilisation that disavows its barbarian potential has already capitulated to barbarism.
— Slavoj Zizek
American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.
— Albert Jay Nock
Never too late. Shooting is prayer. And when civilisation shuts up shop, a gun'll be worth any number of university degrees.
— David Mitchell
The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today.
— Albert Schweitzer
Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.
— Vladimir Putin
[The Koran is one of] the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known.
— William Muir
If we desire a certain type of civilisation and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.
— George Bernard Shaw
We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
— Seamus Heaney
Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.
— Matthew De Abaitua
The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.
— African Spir
There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I Will Follow Anyone
And Ask Everyone
To Stand Together
As One Civilisation
Against Terrorism — Widad Akreyi
And Ask Everyone
To Stand Together
As One Civilisation
Against Terrorism — Widad Akreyi
Doesn't civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint?
— Hanif Kureishi
The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.
— B.R. Ambedkar
That,' Peregrine said, 'is civilisation. Not all who were rewarded deserved to be; not all who should have been were.
— Alastair Reynolds
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
— Alfred Russel Wallace
All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
— Havelock Ellis
No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
— Tariq Ramadan
I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.
— Helen Keller
Education is the transformation of civilisation
— Will Durant
The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.
— C. G. Weeramantry
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
— Mahatma Gandhi
But one of the strange marks of the strength of Christianity is that, since it came, no pagan in our civilisation has been able to be really human.
— G.K. Chesterton
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.
— Lennart Meri
I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.
— Aldous Huxley
Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.
— Andrew Carnegie
They looked at me, in my hippie garb, with horror and disgust, the Decline of Western Civilisation suddenly plopped in their midst.
— Paul Monette
I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.
— David LaChapelle
You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
— Iris Murdoch
Letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
— Thomas Jefferson
If anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.
— Ann Leckie
There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.
— Adam Smith
Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
— Sivananda Saraswati
But that was civilisation, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy things difficult.
— Joe Abercrombie
The march of civilisation has given the modern girl a vocabulary and an ability to use it which her grandmother never had
— P.G. Wodehouse
Curiosity is the engine of civilisation
— Peter Cundill
As civilisation advances, so does indifference.
— Matt Haig
It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
— Ronald Knox
And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer?
— James S.A. Corey
Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her social programmes.
— A.H. Septimius
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.
— Isaiah Berlin
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.
(Interview, New York Post Magazine, September 14, 1958) — Bernard Malamud
(Interview, New York Post Magazine, September 14, 1958) — Bernard Malamud
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.
— Amish Tripathi
Civilisation is very fragile. All it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals.
— Amish Tripathi
It is because nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation.
— John Wyndham
... the very least one requires for civilisation to survive is an adequate supply of sound wines.
— Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Civilisation's like the economy or Tinkerbell: If people stop believing it's real, it dies.
— David Mitchell
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.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.
— Ann Leckie
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.
— Alec-Tweedie
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation
— Julian Burnside
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
— George Bernard Shaw
Our civilisation is haunted by the notion that the quickest way of doing anything is invariably the best.
— George Orwell
Comfort is the only thing our civilisation can give us.
— Oscar Wilde
It is impossible to found a civilisation on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.
— George Orwell
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.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The practical dreamers have always been, and always will be, the pattern-makers of civilisation.
— Napoleon Hill
The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.
— John Dewey
Insane Europeans who plot to cut each others' throats, now that one and the same civilisation enfolds and unites them all!
— Anatole France
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
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.
— Peter Greenaway
A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Your power stations, your cars, your creature comforts. Well, you lived too long. The bill's due. Today.
— David Mitchell
No one objects to the notion that every technological civilisation might undergo its own Introdus.
— Greg Egan
If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!
— Richard Dawkins
Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.
— Brian W. Aldiss
Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife
— Scott Lynch
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
— James Buchan
The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois ...
— Susan Sontag
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible ... one or the other must go.
— Vera Brittain
It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made.
— Neel Burton
Nature without civilisation is frightening; and civilisation without nature is even more frightening!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Civilisation is the art of living in contact with other persons with the minimum of discomfort.
— Nanamoli Thera
Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.
— Winston Churchill
The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.
— Swami Vivekananda
Civilized people don't feel.
— Mervyn Peake
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
— Florence Nightingale
Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
— Alexis Carrel
Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.
— Swami Vivekananda