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I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.
John Hanning Speke
Good
Evil
Slightest
Those
Civilisation
Accurately
Impulse
Africa
Native
Where
Whether
Places
Profess
European
Describe
Received
It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.
John Hawkes
Saying
Me
Achievement
Year
Every
Our
Bores
Seems
Civilisation
Crowning
Attempt
Like
Makes
Done
Just
Story
Interested
Hollywood
Really
Manson
Less
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.
John Millington Synge
Myself
Me
Rude
Men
First
Gave
Find
Civilisation
Since
Primitive
Model
Canoe
Canvas
Moving
Moving Away
Races
Sea
Moment
Satisfaction
Away
Exquisite
Served
I am now certain that we have no alternative but to reduce urgently the levels of carbon that we are still pumping into the atmosphere as though tomorrow simply didn't matter. If we don't act collectively and individually, our children and their children will reap a whirlwind which will obliterate their civilisation.
Jonathan Dimbleby
Matter
Tomorrow
Will
Reap
Pumping
Our
Though
Collectively
Atmosphere
Civilisation
Obliterate
Simply
Individually
Alternative
Reduce
Am
Still
Children
Which
Urgently
Whirlwind
Certain
Act
Now
Carbon
Levels
Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love.
Julian Barnes
Love
You
Power
Cities
About
Civilisation
Paris
Various
Could
Argue
Had
Most
Least
Lot
Times
Arts
Centre
Boast
Certainly
European
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.
Kate Atkinson
Death
Saying
People
Think
Twitter
Signals
Civilisation
Individual
Since
Cult
Been
Western
Us
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
Time
Lost
Our
Bit
Civilisation
Point
Tends
Between
Another
Yardstick
Times
Measure
Bond
China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it.
Martin Jacques
Alien
Too
State
Virtually
Saw
Finally
Weak
Borders
Only
Civilisation
Over
Period
Powers
Within
Arrangement
Existed
Western
Itself
Very
China
Century
Whole
Roughly
Millennia
Present
Early
Resist
Two
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it.
Martin Jacques
Truth
Best
Racism
Responsibility
Society
Our
Waves
Ruled
Those
Best Part
Allegedly
Civilisation
Dripping
Part
Least
Surprising
Controlled
Centuries
Planet
Who
Believed
Bring
Two
British
If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith.
Mary Beard
Faith
Me
You
More
Civilisation
Than
Little
Ask
Act
One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.
Mary Beard
Civilisation
Another
Person
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.
Muhammad Yunus
Environmental
Technology
Moon
Single
Every
Enormous
Took
Say
Crisis
Given
Civilisation
Civilization
Goodbye
Debt
Going
Where
To The Moon
Then
Us
Successes
Things
Need
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.
Paul Keating
Great
Passion
Society
Changes
Rather
Civilisation
Rational
Wrought
Been
Than
Process
Held
Deduction
Beliefs
Deeply
The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration, the Second World War, which divided the continent until the end of the century.
Paul Keating
War
Heart
World
First
Destroyed
Only
Civilisation
Divided
Empires
Until
First World
First World War
Continent
Led
End
Aftermath
Which
Century
European
Second
World War
Second World War
The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements of the Inca civilisation.
Peter Shaffer
People
Astonishing
Followers
Silver
Civilisation
Oblivious
Were
Very
Fixated
Gold
Achievements
Rough
The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.
Richard Flanagan
Man
Long
Before
Extraordinary
Civilisation
Reached
Existed
Modern
Modern Man
British
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.
Roy Harper
Other
Ways
Scale
Introduction
Some
Given
Civilisation
Abuse
Because
Continue
Lot
Huge
Which
Lament
Room
Us
Each
The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Best
Stream
Slow
Sides
Rapid
Spirals
Civilisation
River
Advances
Like
Current
Mid
Flows
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?
Simon Callow
Man
About
Civilisation
Absolutely
Part
Particular
Him
His
Western
Story
Centre
Fascination
Why
Jesus
There is a view of Russian exceptionalism, that they are a unique civilisation, a view right since Ivan the Terrible that Russia is a special civilisation with a special culture. Putin is pushing that now.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Culture
Russia
Russian
Civilisation
Pushing
Putin
Since
Terrible
View
Special
Unique
Now
Right
Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason why culture remains so politically vital. Civilisation cannot get on with culture, and it cannot get on without it.
Terry Eagleton
Daily
Culture
Women
Men
Men And Women
Power
Submit
Easily
Vital
Weave
Civilisation
Remains
Without
Does
Existence
Itself
Texture
Get
Politically
Cannot
Reason
Why
You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Life
Hope
History
You
Peace
Yourself
Will
Calm
Few
Despair
Enough
Later
Carried
Thousand
Thousand Years
Abolish
No Hope
Something
Civilisation
Could
Accept
Because
Years
Begin
The History Of
After
Happened
Then
Planet
There are people who just love to destroy other people. It saddens me to admit that, I think, at whatever state of human civilisation we arrive at, the will to destroy other people is something that is innate in some people.
Tobias Forge
Love
Me
People
Will
Some People
Whatever
Think
Other
State
Destroy
Some
Admit
Something
Civilisation
Arrive
Human
Just
Who
Innate
History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it.
Tony Judt
Knowledge
History
You
Progress
Tremendous
Bad
Laws
Civilisation
Bad Stuff
Stuff
Also
Another
Pile
Been
Behaviour
Behind
After
Cannot
Meaning
Show
Al Jazeera should understand the societies, should understand the culture of the civilisation, should understand the dynamics of the societies, should be part of this understanding; and on the other level, Al Jazeera should concentrate on the margin rather than the centre. It means that Al Jazeera should be close to the public.
Wadah Khanfar
Culture
Understanding
Other
Rather
Civilisation
Part
Concentrate
Understand
Close
Than
Dynamics
Public
Centre
Should
Means
Al
Al Jazeera
Level
Margin
Societies
The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.
William Hague
You
Yourself
World
Power
Before
Diffusion
More
Civilisation
Than
Going
Human
Place
Decision-Making
Far
Requires
Ever
Actually
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