111 Quotes About Civilisation

While I was sat there being my usual pessoptimistic self, he was ecstatic: "Verdant fields! Green on your right and on your left; green everywhere! We have given life to what was dead. This is why we have named the borders of former Israel the Green Belt. For beyond them lie barren mountains and desert reaches, a wilderness calling out to us, "'Come you tractors of civilisation

Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.

Les civilisations de l´Antiquité se sont donné des dieux et des codes, les civilisations modernes des lois et des méthodes.

Mänsklig välfärd är mänsklig plikt.

Utan ansvarsskyldighet finns det ingen civilisation.

Le peuple à qui on avait eu tant de peine de démontrer que le marabout ne peut rien à son triste sort, le peuple à peine échappé à l'attrape-nigaud des zaouia, retombait à plein dans le nouveau piège administratif, celui de l'élu qui peut tout, du bulletin de vote qui fait des miracles.

Civilisation was not civilzed by me.

Civilisation displays and endorses the conception of love, harmony, justice, and the equal rights for everyone regardless the discrimination, conversely, one feels that the West indeed becomes civilised; however, one seems not to believe that the West behaves the same with others. Civilisation is still to achieve and apply as its real conception.

C'est la femme qui transforme la barbarie en civilisation.