A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

— Karen Russell

I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes,…

— George Lucas

I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really important.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think when we were developing Season 1 - and to Netflix's credit, they sort of pressured us to make sure we had this…

— Matt Duffer

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

— Moshe Safdie

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation,

— David LaChapelle

But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months…

— Daniel Barenboim

“the march of civilisation has given the modern girl a vocabulary and an ability to use it which her grandmother never had”

— P. G. Wodehouse

It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that follow. The…

— Ross Garnaut

The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from…

— Anonymous

The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and…

— Henry Williamson

“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”

— Adam Smith

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to…

— Roy Harper

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for…

— Benjamin Disraeli