Sentence examples for save civilisation from inspiring English sources

I didn't grow up wanting to be a square-jawed individualist or join a heroic quest; I grew up wanting to be Hari Seldon, using my understanding of the mathematics of human behaviour to save civilisation.

The problem is, they just aren't doing it on anything like the scale needed to save civilisation from tipping over the multiple precipice it is approaching as a result of carbon-fuel dependency.

In the three years between the crises in Spain and central Europe, Mr Overy writes, "the balance between saving civilisation through peace and saving civilisation by war swung decisively in favour of the latter".

Media pundits in those early days used to urge us to think of the country as being at war and to fire ourselves up with the same plucky spirit that saved civilisation from the Nazi threat.

A new generation of budding discophiles, with peach fuzz where their ironic facial hair is still growing, suddenly discovered what their forebears long took for granted: Giorgio Moroder saved civilisation.

He spent his 20s trying to avoid Adolf Hitler and drifting among a number of jobs, including banking, consultancy, academic law and journalism (his journalistic career included a spell as the acting editor of a women's page).Along the way, he became increasingly convinced that the best hope for saving civilisation from barbarism lay in the humdrum science of management.

I woke up and said, "why, where is it written that I have to save western civilisation?

Frontline anti-terror police naturally feel they are involved in an existential campaign to save western civilisation from people who may as well be zombies.

Young men came to these groups for tips on picking up girls and came out believing it was up to them to save Western civilisation... [They] found young white men at their most vulnerable and convinced them liberals were colluding to destroy white Western manhood".

I had very much hoped that the book was going to be a sort of How Gays Saved Civilisation.

The time to act, he says, is now and we all have to play our part in kicking the carbon habit: "Saving civilisation is not a spectator sport".