Quotes Tagged With :civilisation

All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over....

I thought I was getting away from politics for a while. But I now realise that the vuvuzela is to these....

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

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

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

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

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

So now what?” I ask.She is quiet for a long time, long enough that I assume she’s gone to sleep.“I....

There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

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