A Quote by Max Lerner

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

Max Lerner

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Max Lerner
American - Journalist
December 20, 1902 - June 5, 1992

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

Edward R. Murrow

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

Laura Anne Gilman

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.

Carl Sagan

The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one.

Thomas Leonard

Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.

L. Ron Hubbard

If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly, and no doubt the three combined long ago, the one growing out of the others, to foster civilization and lead Western humanity to its present state of decline.

Tom Robbins

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

Christopher Hitchens

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

Anthony Gregory

If your cat's up a tree, you call the fire department. If someone's hurt, you call the fire department. If there's a mudslide or your house is on fire, you call the fire department. They're our first line of defense.

Lorne Greene

Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before.

Germaine Greer

I majored in religion for my entire undergraduate career at Duke University and then I went to seminary for a year unsure whether or not I really had the call to be a minister. I spoke with a pastor of my home church and told him I was going to seminary. He said "Do you feel the call to be a minister?" and I said "Honestly, I don't. I know it's the greatest call you could have but I'm not feeling that call myself. He said "Well, you know, you're wrong. It's not the greatest call. The greatest call is whatever calling God has for you."

Randall Wallace

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

John Banville

We have progressed in a technological sense, but I'm not so sure whether we have progressed in a civilizational matter - the quality of the civilization has not improved. It's a civilization that's in love with technology but forgetting about the human side of it and the destructive tendency in human civilization has not been faced.