There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.
We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love.
The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation.
I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and intellectual civilisation to be secure, not because I have any sympathy with the coarse-grained herd who would menace the civilisation if not placated by sops.
It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation.
Education is the transformation of civilisation
Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.
CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.
Our use of the phrase 'The Dark Ages' to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe. [. . . ] From India to Spain, the brilliant civilisation of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilisation, but quite the contrary. [. . . ] To us it seems that West-European civilisation is civilisation, but this is a narrow view.
In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are being driven off their lands by mining companies, by dams, by infrastructure companies, and a huge battle is being waged. These are not people who have been co-opted into consumer culture, into the western notions of civilisation and progress. They are fighting for their lands and their livelihoods, refusing to be looted so that someone somewhere far away may "progress" at their cost.
Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.
Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.
What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.
This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.
