Stone Age Quotes

• I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

  David Bowie

  Men, Demise, Stones

  Song: Quicksand, Album: Hunky Dory, 1971

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• The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

  William McDonough

  Thinking, Age, Stones

  "Eco-designs on future cities" by Jo Twist, news.bbc.co.uk. July 14, 2005.

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• Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life.

  E. O. Wilson

  Stars, Confused, Real

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• If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

  Jacques Barzun

  Future, Civilization, Vision

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• In the beginning, there was no retirement. There were no old people. In the Stone Age, everyone was fully employed until age 20, by which time nearly everyone was dead, usually of unnatural causes. Any early man who lived long enough to develop crow's-feet was either worshiped or eaten as a sign of respect.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Retirement, Feet, Long

  "The History of Retirement, From Early Man to A.A.R.P." by Mary-Lou Weisman, www.nytimes.com. March 21, 1999.

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• The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn't before, and once you had them you were able to remove the skin and bones.

  Neal Barnard

  Animal, Knives, Arrows

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Mankind is advanced technically. Man can build space stations, can assemble them in space, and ponders about landing on Mars, but the development of mankind itself seems to stagnate on stone age level.

  Sigmund Jahn

  Men, Space, Age

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• We have progressed from the stone age and moved on to the age of stone hearted people

  Amit Abraham

  People, Age, Moved On

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• We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

  William Westmoreland

  Peace, War, Age

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• The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.

  Ahmed Zaki Yamani

  Running, Oil, Long

  Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au.

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• As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.

  Steven Chu

  Lying, Science, Opportunity

  Letter from Secretary Steven Chu to Energy Department Employees, energy.gov. February 1, 2013.

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• From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.

  R. D. Laing

  Love, Mother, Baby

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation But our souls live in the stone age

  Nizar Qabbani

  Soul, Tragedy, Capes

  Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”

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• The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

  Winston Churchill

  Science, Age, Stones

  1942 Speech, 26 Mar, in devastated war-time London.

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• Retribution is really a stone age concept.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Age, Stones, Retribution

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• There is no such thing as a miracle. A miracle is just what somebody else doesn't understand. If we went back into the Stone Age and we lit a match, they'd say, "Ahh miracla, miracla!"

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Miracle

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• I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

  Jodie Foster

  Years, Age, Stones

  "Jodie Foster's Golden Globes acceptance speech: Did she come out? Depends on whom you ask". nationalpost.com. January 14, 2013.

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• We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

  E. O. Wilson

  Technology, Age, Stones

  "The Great Matrix of Being" by William Grassie, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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• Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

  J. L. Austin

  Age, Ordinary, Stones

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• Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our population dwindled from a once astronomical size to the mere three billions of today.

  Heinz von Foerster

  Men, Upset, Age

  "Population Density and Growth". "Science", Vol 133, June 16, 1961.

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• The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.

  Ahmed Zaki Yamani

  Age, Investing, Stones

  "The Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment" by Bevis Longstreth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2014.

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• USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Powerful, Usa

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• One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with mental crutches, and every time I found one, I kicked those goddamn crutches until they flew. You know what happened? Every single one of those people has been able to walk without the crutches better, in fact. Were they giving up anything intrinsically valuable? Just their irrational reliance upon superstitions and supernatural nonsense. Perhaps this sort of claptrap was good for the Stone Age, when people actually believed that if they prayed for rain they would get it.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Giving Up, Rain, Years

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• A ley line is what might be called a field of force, a trail of telluric energy. There are hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, all over Britain, and they've been around since the Stone Age.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Age, Energy, Lines

  "The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.

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• There's this Indian fellow who worked out a cycle like the idea of stone-age, bronze-age, only he did it on an Indian one. The cycle goes from nothing until now and 20th century and then on and right around the cycle until the people are really grooving and then just sinks back into ignorance until it gets back into the beginning again. So the 20th century is a fraction of that cycle, and how many of those cycles has it done yet? It's done as many as you think and all these times it's been through exactly the same things, and it'll be this again.

  George Harrison

  Ignorance, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.fifthestate.org

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