Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.” — Patricia Crone Copy Share Image
All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“Just a few hundred years ago, most human societies found breast exposure in everyday life unremarkable. What has happened to us?” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on… — Ed Ayres Copy Share Image
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
“human societies always define themselves by their narrowest possible interests.That they are exclusive not inclusive.” — Joel Shepherd Copy Share Image
The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“They had grown up to believe that the natural order of things was for one’s home to be a place of freedom… — Kobie Krüger Copy Share Image
Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the… — William E. Rees Copy Share Image
History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places,… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how… — Robert May, Baron May of Oxford Copy Share Image
“Institutions are “stable, valued, recurring patterns of behavior,” as Huntington put it, the most important function of which is to facilitate collective… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And the connections we have progressively built between human societies not only link old germ pools, but more profoundly they have turned… — Kyle Harper Copy Share Image
“The most fundamental, a major shift from the ape brand of sociality, was the human nuclear family, which gave all males a… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“community ownership doesn’t work in large-scale societies where people operate in anonymity. In The Power of Scale, anthropologist John Bodley wrote: “The… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies. — Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I am fundamentally an anthropologist and a rationalist. What I say is that human societies are very different from what specialists call… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“All human societies contain inventive people. It’s just that some environments provide more starting materials, and more favorable conditions for utilizing inventions,… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“In general, human societies are not innovative. They are hierarchical and ritualistic. Suggestions for change are greeted with suspicion: they imply an… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
