One problem with globalisation is that bad ideas seem to travel faster than good ones; first there was smearing tomato ketchup on everything; then drinking sugar-soaked cocktails ('Cosmo'-politanism) instead of our traditional whisky soda, and now this idea that we should abandon the poor to their fate in order to protect their dignity.
Globalisation for a startup is exciting; you have to learn so fast about the different cultures of the world.
Even if you can't afford to buy a painting, you can experience it. You can go see the Mona Lisa and be transported. You can see the discipline and suffering in a van Gogh.
The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
