Civilisation Quotes - page 8

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. (Matt Haig)
The more I see of the world, the more I am convinced that civilisation is a blessing not sufficiently estimated by those who have not traced its progress; for it not only refines our enjoyments, but produces a variety which enables us to retain the primitive delicacy of our sensations. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Western civilisation, with its own spirituality, has permeated all corners of the earth. My thesis is that this is the spirituality of money. View quote
Ulrich Duchrow
As scientific men we have all, no doubt, felt that our fellow men have become more and more satisfying as fish have taken up their work which has been put often to base uses, which must lead to disaster. But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries. 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. For them, such a charge is worse than that of crime. View quote
Frederick Soddy
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. View quote
Henry Williamson
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban. View quote
Umberto Eco
The progressive Islamisation of our country and the increase in political-religious demands are calling into question the survival of our civilisation. View quote
Marine Le Pen
Before passing on, I will merely add this, that in some ways the evils attendant on slaughtering grow worse, and not better, as civilisation advances, because of the more complex conditions of town life, and the increasingly long journeys to which animals are subjected in their transit from the grazier to the slaughterman. View quote
Henry Stephens Salt
Has the artist ever considered the history of the "chop" which is brought so elegantly to his studio? ... He has first employed a slaughterman ... to convert a beautiful living creature into a hideous carcase, to be displayed with other carcases in that ugliest product of civilisation, a butcher's shop, and then he has employed a cook to conceal, as far as may be, the work of the slaughterman. This is what the Spectator calls being "humanised" by schools of cookery; I should call it being de-humanised. View quote
Henry Stephens Salt
Disarmament is the ideal of socialism. There will be no wars in and the dictatorship of the proletariat is not a socialist. Dictatorship is state power based directly on violence. And in the twentieth century - as in the age of civilisation generally - violence means neither a fist nor a club, but troops. To put "disarmament” in the programme is tantamount to making the general declaration: We are opposed to the use of arms. There is as little Marxism in this as there would be if we were to say: We are opposed to violence! View quote
Vladimir Lenin
The only perfection which modern civilisation achieves is mechanical; machines are magnificent and immaculate but the life which serves them or is served by them isn't magnificent or shiny or more perfect or more comely. (Karel Čapek)
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. View quote
Zygmunt Bauman
Many do not understand how precarious Western civilisation is and what a joy it is. View quote
John Rhys-Davies
The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Each high point in the history of human civilisation has taken place where the conditions were ripe and has borrowed and built on the achievements of other cultures whose golden age may have passed. View quote
Nayef Al-Rodhan
There is only one collective human civilisation comprised of geo-cultural domains and cultures. View quote
Nayef Al-Rodhan
Justice is paramount to civilisational triumph because of its centrality to human dignity needs, the success of individual geo-cultural domains and the well-being of human civilisation. View quote
Nayef Al-Rodhan
Many of the great achievements in history that are commonly attributed to one geo-cultural domain often owe a great debt to those of others. In this sense, some of the greatest achievements of human civilisation have been collective efforts and are part of the same human story. View quote
Nayef Al-Rodhan
The history of human civilisation is a history of mutual borrowings. View quote
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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)
The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas. View quote
Alan Moore
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. View quote
John Millington Synge
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space and time, in experiences called thoughts, images, reveries, dreams, visions, hallucinations, dreams of memories, memories of dreams, memories of visions, dreams of hallucinations, refractions of refractions of refractions of that original Alpha and Omega of experience and reality, that Reality on whose repression, denial, splitting, projection, falsification, and general desecration and profanation our civilisation as much as anything is based. View quote
Ronald David Laing
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction. View quote
Paul Keating