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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
The enduring lesson is war is a disaster. Whoever wins, tremendous loss of life, property - a set back for civilisation.
The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
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.
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?
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race
The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.
The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.
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.
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.
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?
The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
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.
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.
The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
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.
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.
The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.
At the birth of society and civilisation I find a religious landscape littered with feisty female deities who make wisdom their business.
Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation
The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.
Climate change is an existential threat to our economy, and ultimately to civilisation as we know it.
Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.'
Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.
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.
Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.
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.
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.
Climate change remains the biggest threat to our civilisation, economy and security - even bigger than Brexit.
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.
What do we value more: an economic system which privileges profit above all other considerations, or the continued existence of human civilisation as we recognise it? A reckoning is coming.
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.
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.
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.
If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!
I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.
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.
A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate
It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
Turns out we've been eating the wrong things...since the dawn of civilisation
Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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.
I knew that Britain and the United States were beacons of freedom and democracy at a time when my life - and Western civilisation itself - was at grave risk.
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.
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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.
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.
My theory is that hip-hop is the most advanced version of civilisation on earth, and we are here to usher the rest of humanity into the Age of Aquarius.
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.
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.
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.
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.
The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet known.
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.
