Civilization Quote by Thor Heyerdahl

Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

— Linus Pauling

We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication tends to…

— Harold Innis

We not only speak but think and even dream in words. Language is a mirror in which the whole spiritual development of mankind reflects…

— Ernest Klein

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

We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and…

— Richard Wright

For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable…

— Anonymous

Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where…

— Charlton Laird

“Civilization is the name we give to the interaction of human beings in a very creative way, when, as it were, a critical mass…

— Anonymous

“The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private property, not…

— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying…

— Will Durant

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

— W. H. Auden

There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably enhanced, one…

— Noam Chomsky