Human Civilisation

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or civilisation:

“The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of human history.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

“That civilisation may not sink,
Its great battle lost,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)