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If I have some celebrity, I hope I can use it to make a difference. The true social reward is that I can speak my mind and share my thoughts about the enviroment and civilisation itself. There`s so much shit happening with people who are exploiting their positions and creating a lot of negativity.

- River Phoenix

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

- Richard O'Brien

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

- AJ Nicholson

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

- Alex Urquhart

It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.

- Alex Ward

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

- Andre Lewis