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One religion, one civilisation, above all is Love and Humanity, respectively. — Vikrmn

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

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

Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that — Tony Abbott

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

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

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation. — Voltaire

For all civilisations are like elaborate campings-out, a complicated picnic in the face of nature's discomforts. — Elizabeth Taylor

What is civilisation? Idriss once remarked. It's a woman, free to live as she wants. — Gregory David Roberts

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended. — Alan Furst

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

Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat. — Ernest Bevin

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

What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens? — Ann Leckie

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

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

Women made civilisation impossible with all their "charm " all their silliness. — Virginia Woolf

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