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“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.”

Men Doe Reason Culture Existence Men And Women Remains Reason Why Submit Texture Civilisation

Author:Terry Eagleton

“A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.”

Alive Tree Civilization Shapes Universal Sticks Spread Mathematical Artificial Uniforms Civilisation Umbrella

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation”

Art Law Civilisation

Author:Julian Burnside

“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.”

Ifs Country Christian Built Prison Our Country Thrown Missionary Civilisation Taliban Mosques Kabul

Author:Umberto Eco

“On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage.”

Men Humans Spirit Perfect Cities Produce Return Landscape Savages Human Spirit Palaces Civilisation Civilised

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.”

Mean Long Doe Matter Forget Imagine Prosperity Feds Never Forget Trust In God Recognise Civilisation Commitment To God Intimacy With God Connecting With God

Book:The Quotable Oswald Chambers

Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers

“Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.”

Men Car Ignorance Comfort Civilisation Grinning

Author:Eugen Sandow

“The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must free ourselves from our tendency to see cities as their buildings, and remember that the real city is made of flesh, not concrete.”

Humans Made Real Reason Remember Cities Behinds Building Truth Is Flesh Tendencies Primaries Reason Why Collaboration Concrete Civilisation

Author:Edward Glaeser

“The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply. Eating regularly is a non-negotiable activity and countries that cannot feed their people are unlikely to be reasonable about it.”

People Firsts Humans Important Country Politics Activity Eating Crisis Impact Climate Climate Change Permanent Reasonable Unlikely Civilisation Food Supply

Book:Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats

Source: Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats

“Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth.”

Important Law Courses Water Wealth Knowledge Ignorance Flow Stones Raises Ancient Civilisation Pyramids Canals Irrigation Ancient Egyptian

Author:Mahathir Mohamad

“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.”

People Men Science Modern Effects Ignorance Regard Impact Precise Civilisation Modern Science

Author:Frederick Soddy

“Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.”

Lost Bits Ties Civilisation Yardsticks

Author:Lennart Meri

“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.”

World Mind Important Ideas Whole Reality Rooms Attention Tvs Demand Clock Here And Now Civilisation Inner World Sofas

Author:Alan Moore

“Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.”

World Soul Animal Cruelty Destroyed Civilisation Experimentation Animal Cruelty

Author:Alexis Carrel

“Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.”

Humans Has Beens Light Individual Society Fine Circumstances Achievement Aim Terrorism Permanent Realised Civilisation Antithesis Civilised

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .”

Culture Hero Ants Civilisation Bourgeois

Author:Susan Sontag

“CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.”

Values Communication Judged Civilisation

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest.”

“If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued.”

Source: J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings

“It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.”

Should Firsts Turns Answers Steps Class Importance Civilisation Riddle First Class Sphinx

Author:Gregory Bateson

“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.”

Art Self Cities Various Arguing Paris Centre Boast Civilisation

Author:Julian Barnes

“I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.”

Children Heard Elements Divorce Earnest Civilisation Enriching Sociologists

Book:You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

“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.”

World Terrorism Disaster Ice Collectives Genocide Flu Civilisation Skating Orderly Frail Tsunami Skating On Thin Ice

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.”

Has Beens Passion Belief Process Rational Civilisation Deductions Great Change

Author:Paul Keating

“During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.”

Years Made Nations Process Mankind Development Chinese Contribution Advancement Civilisation Indelible

Author:Xi Jinping

“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?”

Men Stories Jesus Particular Western Centre Fascination Civilisation

Author:Simon Callow

“The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.”

People Play Whole Use Force Generations Materials Climate Climate Change Fuel Goods Civilisation Transportation Goods And Services

Author:Peter Garrett

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