There are five things that societies do: They reproduce; they produce food; they organize themselves in terms of law; they organize themselves… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion be? It should produce peaceful, strong, secure… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us… — David Christian Copy Share Image
What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this… — Jenna McCarthy Copy Share Image
If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, were… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival… — Ahmet Davutoglu Copy Share Image
Al Jazeera should understand the societies, should understand the culture of the civilisation, should understand the dynamics of the societies, should be… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.'… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
