52 Civilisation Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Christopher Hitchens

We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles. H. P. Lovecraft

Nature Man Will Long Beast Sleeps Beneath Slight Must Only Civilisation Remain Remains Brute He Lightly Principles Deal Genuine Ready Scientifically Dominant Same Realise Which Using Awake Element Ever Biological Preserve

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. Nikola Tesla

Fire Power First Flame Speed Increasing Civilisation Blaze Feeble Spread May Mighty Spark Then Next Flickering Ever

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. George Bernard Shaw

Capitalism Socialism Country Appropriation Plenty Civilisation Never Instance Arises Private Pioneers Where Available Land Among Earlier Phases Last

The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last. Sufjan Stevens

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. Thich Nhat Hanh

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. Alain Ducasse

Great You Culture Experience Gorgeous Impossible Challenge Must Indifferent Civilisation Remain Learnt Intellectual Forgotten Where Different Sensual Japanese Japanese Culture

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity. Annie Besant

Intelligence Simple Men Stage Every Complex Evolution Lofty Civilisation Mentality Crude Developed Highly Most Also Another Polity Place Found

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. Annie Besant

God Clouds King Become Earth Rules Chariot Above More Civilisation More And More Divine Advances Over Concentrated Powers Maketh His Being Lessen Whole Reigns Number

I must say I have a personal love affair with India, with its civilisation, its culture. Antonio Guterres

Love Culture Say Must India Civilisation Affair Personal Love Affair

I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's something in the landscape that's stronger than human civilisation. There's no agriculture, for example, and there are live volcanoes. Claire Denis

I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this. Daniel Barenboim

Videos Think Our Television Visual Civilisation Very Much

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation. David LaChapelle

Love Fashion Beauty Mark Civilisation Glamour

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. David Mamet

ISIL struck France because it is 'free' and 'the nation of human rights'. This is not a war of civilisation, as these assassins don't have any. This is a war against the jihadist menace that threatens not just France. Francois Hollande

War Rights Free Nation Human Rights France Threatens Menace Struck Civilisation Because Any Human Just Against Assassins

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. Frederick Soddy

Ignorance Science People Men Living Charge Impact Civilisation Scientific Effect Escape Mode Precise Modern Regard Modern Science Hardly

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. Friedensreich Hundertwasser

You Symptom Our Ruler Moral Carrying Pocket Civilisation New Forbidden Least Disease Just Disintegration Should Your Illiteracy Symbol Basis

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. Greg Egan

I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religious morals of Europe and what they did with the slaves, because the root of the evil is only two generations away from me. Maybe this has fed my need to fight against the abuses of modern civilisation. J. M. G. Le Clezio

Me Fight Better Evil Religious Morals Only Civilisation Fed Generations Between Abuse Idealistic Most Because Understand Contradiction Than Did Modern Maybe Against Root Europe Away Slaves Two Need

When we say Tamil, we are not talking of a language but an entire civilisation. Jaggi Vasudev

Language Not Talking Say Entire Civilisation Talking

I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing. Joel Salatin

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