The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.
Il ne peut y avoir une civilisation mondiale puisque la civilisation implique la coexistence de cultures offrant entre elles le maximum de diversité.
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.
We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.
If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.
China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but a civilisation state. Whereas the West has primarily been shaped by its experience of nation, China has been moulded by its sense of civilisation.
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective,...
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 geologic...
I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me. Is it my age, I wonder, or the age we live in? I am not sure. Civilisations do collapse, after all, but on the other hand people grow old with rather greater...
What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhil...
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen h...
We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.
La conscience morale de l’humanité progresse, lentement mais sûrement...
Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely...
Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.
Qu'on le sache bien, une bonne fois pour toutes: je ne veux pas me civiliser.
