Civilisation Quotes

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water d...

Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It co...

When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they’d need to keep t...

Look at this charming donkey!

The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because...

Are we to conclude that these chief gods, Zeus and Yahweh, did not wish humankind to have moral cons...

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation

Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civili...

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men t...

We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are no...

His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them the...

Girls say to me, very reasonably, 'why isn't it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bun...

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiorit...

There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid...

I have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're look...

The forests were crippled, the wheat fields vanished; in place of the grass there reappeared stone a...

...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, ci...

You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to ...

The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books a...

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established...

And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to t...

There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, bu...

As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humo...

Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all ...