First person Quote by Hussein Nishah

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

— Sigmund Freud

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

— Sigmund Freud

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

— N. Scott Momaday

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations…

— Paul Kantner

Things were first made, then words.

— Thomas Overbury

Theres a reason we have words such as Inventor and pioneer

— Joseph Maelane

“Beginnings?” I said to no one in particular. What an arbitrary mess of a word. Let’s dispense with all misguided (imprecise) (illusory) (disingenuous) terminology…

— Grace Krilanovich

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in…

— Marshall McLuhan

For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.

— W. H. Auden

Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.

— Bertrand Russell