Carleton S. Coon famous quotes

It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village.
-- Carleton S. Coon

#Men #Sheep #Views

The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.
-- Carleton S. Coon

#Animal #Men #Cooking

The Jews cannot be classed as a 'race' per se, they are an ethnic group. '...the Jews form an ethnic group; that like all ethnic groups they have their own racial elements distributed in their own proportions; like all or most ethnic groups they have their 'look,' a part of their cultural heritage that both preserves and expresses their cultural solidarity...they have developed a special racial sub-type and a special pattern of facial and bodily expression.
-- Carleton S. Coon

#Expression #Race #Special

...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones
-- Carleton S. Coon

#Class #Long #Royalty

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

No one man is superior to the game.

A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.

Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.