Civilization Quote by Charlton Laird

You couldn't have human society without language.

— John Maynard Smith

“Six thousand years ago, there were no fully developed writing systems at all though there were, maybe, twenty thousand fully developed languages. (Yes, there…

— Mark David Ledbetter

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

— Guy Deutscher

If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain…

— Robert Bringhurst

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return…

— Lin Yutang

It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For…

— Richard Leakey

The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the…

— Julian Jaynes

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

— Hermann Hesse

“Language is deeply entwined in the intellectual development of humanity itself, it accompanies the latter upon every step of its localized progression or regression;…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

If there are no books. There is no civilization.

— Thomas Cahill

I don't think language could have evolved if it was the only distinctive trait. It goes hand in hand with our ability to develop…

— Steven Pinker

“Language is the key to creation. Without it there would be nothing. For is it not written that the universe was spoken into existence…

— Val Edward Simone