Civilisation Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

  Gore Vidal

  Environmental, Emissions

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• Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Book, Mean

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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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• 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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• It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.

  William Winwood Reade

  Egypt, Soldier, Citizens

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.24

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• The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Claims, Made, Conversation

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• The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Thinking, Sight, People

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