Human Civilisation Quotes

“The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified . . . It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them.”
― Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe

“For at the heart of human civilisation is the byre, the barn, and the midden.”
― Edwin Muir