Civilisation Quotes - Page 10

• I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

  Helen Keller

  Thinking, Enlightenment, Degrees

  Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan (1904). “The story of my life”

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• We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Past, Vision, Dialogue

  "Why I'm going to meet the Pope" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2008.

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• As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent to do some repetitive job, but not intelligent enough to make their own terms with society." Those "intelligent enough" to make their own terms with society are what we will later refer to as artists of life. The outsider views himself as a product of a culture he rejects-the artist views himself as a culture-builder.

  Laurence Boldt

  Jobs, Artist, Intelligent

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.94, Penguin

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• Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.

  Winston Churchill

  Thinking, Property, Built

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). "Sir Winston Churchill: un autorretrato"

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• Education is the transformation of civilisation

  Will Durant

  Transformación

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• I like looking at the countryside as well as anyone... a little countryside goes a long way, but it's almost like the DNA of a civilisation is in its cities.

  Jonathan Meades

  Dna, Cities, Long

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• 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

  Kings, Numbers, Clouds

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.225, Jazzybee Verlag

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• No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil society as well as we would challenge Christian-based theocracy, or any other form of bigotry.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Christian, Challenges, Violent

  Fuente: www.abc.net.au

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• Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, in every school.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Education, Children, Kindness

  "Just for Animals" quoted in "Souls Like Ourselves" by Andrea Wiebers and David Wiebers, Rochester, MN: Sojourn Press, (p. 16), 2000.

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• letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Letters, Lasts

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.303

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• I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.

  Aldous Huxley

  Enfermo

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• No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Faithful, Claims, Monopoly

  "Action must follow Obama's words" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. June 03, 2009.

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• Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technical civilization makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured.

  Werner Herzog

  Community, Environmental, Climate

  "Encounters at the End of the World". www.imdb.com. July 18, 2008.

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• Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation But our souls live in the stone age

  Nizar Qabbani

  Soul, Tragedy, Capes

  Nizar Qabbani, "Verso"

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• Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929

  John Vaillant

  Beautiful, Son, Cutting

  John Vaillant (2015). “The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed”, p.25, Random House

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

  Julian Burnside

  Art, Law

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Civilization, Tree, Alive

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• Los libros, en toda su variedad, ofrecen al intelecto humano los medios por los que la civilización puede avanzar triunfalmente.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Book, Mean

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• CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

  Gore Vidal

  Environmental, Emissions

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• The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce. When they do, competition for what remains will trigger dramatic economic and geopolitical events; in the end, it may be impossible for even a single nation to sustain industrialism as we have know it in the twentieth century.

  Richard Heinberg

  Competition, Environmental, Energy

  Richard Heinberg (2003). “The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies”, New Society Pub

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• No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done during the last 900 years. It is impossible to explain this fact in purely economic terms by a materialistic interpretation of history. The principle of change has been a spiritual one and the progress of Western civilisation is intimately related to the dynamic ethos of Western Christianity, which has gradually made Western man conscious of his moral responsibility and his duty to change the world.

  Christopher Dawson

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Men

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• The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Claims, Made, Conversation

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• As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.

  Isabella Beeton

  Art, Civilization, Rude

  Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (2008). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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• Periódico : Un aparato incapaz de distinguir entre un accidente de bicicleta y el hundimiento de la civilización.

  George Bernard Shaw

  America, World, Modern

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• I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Thinking, India, World

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