Civilisation Quotes

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

I think we peaked at flint tools.

We're just apes with broadband.

Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities - the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Civilisation began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.