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title: "37 Human Societies Quotes by 34 authors"
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> [Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/human-societies-like-human-beings-live-by-faith-and-die-when-faith/)

[Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/)

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> [Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/capacity-of-human-societies-both-to-absorb-and-to-discard-cultures-is/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

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> [I think human societies tend to be problematic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ta-nehisi-coates/i-think-human-societies-tend-to-be-problematic/)

[Ta-Nehisi Coates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ta-nehisi-coates/)

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> [Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jared-diamond/human-societies-vary-in-lots-of-independent-factors-affecting-their/)

[Jared Diamond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jared-diamond/)

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> [Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-kushner/unions-are-susceptible-to-the-same-ills-that-befall-all-human/)

[Tony Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-kushner/)

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> [“we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-crone/we-are-here-confronted-with-an-irreducible-oddity-about-all-human/)

[Patricia Crone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-crone/)

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> [All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jared-diamond/all-human-societies-go-through-fads-in-which-they-temporarily-either/)

[Jared Diamond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jared-diamond/)

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> [Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-durkheim/science-cannot-describe-individuals-but-only-types-if-human-societies/)

[Emile Durkheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-durkheim/)

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> [“Just a few hundred years ago, most human societies found breast exposure in everyday life unremarkable. What has happened to us?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-palmer/just-a-few-hundred-years-ago-most-human-societies-found-breast/)

[Gabrielle Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-palmer/)

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> [The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/the-crucial-differences-which-distinguish-human-societies-and-human/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

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> [Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-ayres/its-likely-that-a-general-pattern-of-behavior-among-threatened-human/)

[Ed Ayres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-ayres/)

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> [In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-novak/in-most-of-history-societies-have-not-been-free-it-s-a-very-rare/)

[Michael Novak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-novak/)

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> [“human societies always define themselves by their narrowest possible interests.That they are exclusive not inclusive.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-shepherd/human-societies-always-define-themselves-by-their-narrowest-possible/)

[Joel Shepherd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-shepherd/)

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> [The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-c-clarke/the-numbers-of-distinct-human-societies-or-nations-when-our-race-is/)

[Arthur C. Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-c-clarke/)

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> [We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/we-had-one-or-another-form-of-state-capitalism-during-an-extremely/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-brinsley-sheridan/the-most-threatened-group-in-human-societies-as-in-animal-societies/)

[Richard Brinsley Sheridan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-brinsley-sheridan/)

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> [The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-levi-strauss/the-anthropologist-respects-history-but-he-does-not-accord-it-a/)

[Claude Levi-Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-levi-strauss/)

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> [If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-wright/if-two-people-stare-at-each-other-for-more-than-a-few-seconds-it/)

[Robert Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-wright/)

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> [“They had grown up to believe that the natural order of things was for one’s home to be a place of freedom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kobie-kr-ger/they-had-grown-up-to-believe-that-the-natural-order-of-things-was-for/)

[Kobie Krüger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kobie-kr-ger/)

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> [Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-e-rees/human-societies-as-temporally-and-spatially-far-flung-as-the/)

[William E. Rees](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-e-rees/)

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> [History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-ritter-beard/history-has-been-conceived-and-with-high-justification-in-the-records/)

[Mary Ritter Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-ritter-beard/)

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> [In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-may-baron-may-of-oxford/in-such-systems-there-is-unquestioning-respect-for-authority-faith/)

[Robert May, Baron May of Oxford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-may-baron-may-of-oxford/)

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> [“Institutions are “stable, valued, recurring patterns of behavior,” as Huntington put it, the most important function of which is to facilitate collective…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/institutions-are-stable-valued-recurring-patterns-of-behavior-as/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“And the connections we have progressively built between human societies not only link old germ pools, but more profoundly they have turned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyle-harper/and-the-connections-we-have-progressively-built-between-human/)

[Kyle Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyle-harper/)

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> [“The most fundamental, a major shift from the ape brand of sociality, was the human nuclear family, which gave all males a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-wade/the-most-fundamental-a-major-shift-from-the-ape-brand-of-sociality/)

[Nicholas Wade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-wade/)

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> [“community ownership doesn’t work in large-scale societies where people operate in anonymity. In The Power of Scale, anthropologist John Bodley wrote: “The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-ryan/community-ownership-doesn-t-work-in-large-scale-societies-where/)

[Christopher Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-ryan/)

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> [History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/numa-denis-fustel-de-coulanges/history-is-not-the-accumulation-of-events-of-every-kind-which/)

[Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/numa-denis-fustel-de-coulanges/)

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> [Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-w-gardner/nothing-can-be-more-readily-disproved-than-the-old-saw-you-can-t-keep/)

[John W. Gardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-w-gardner/)

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> [Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavia-e-butler/religion-is-everywhere-there-are-no-human-societies-without-it/)

[Octavia E. Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavia-e-butler/)

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> [I am fundamentally an anthropologist and a rationalist. What I say is that human societies are very different from what specialists call…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/i-am-fundamentally-an-anthropologist-and-a-rationalist-what-i-say-is/)

[Rene Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

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> [Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mortimer-adler/think-how-different-human-societies-would-be-if-they-were-based-on/)

[Mortimer Adler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mortimer-adler/)

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> [“All human societies contain inventive people. It’s just that some environments provide more starting materials, and more favorable conditions for utilizing inventions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jared-diamond/all-human-societies-contain-inventive-people-it-s-just-that-some/)

[Jared Diamond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jared-diamond/)

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> [I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/i-think-a-lot-of-things-will-be-self-correcting-even-in-america-after/)

[James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/)

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> [...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-smil/no-matter-how-complex-or-affluent-human-societies-are-nothing-but/)

[Vaclav Smil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-smil/)

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> [For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jared-diamond/for-anyone-inclined-to-caricature-environmental-history-as/)

[Jared Diamond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jared-diamond/)

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> [Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-de-tocqueville/among-the-laws-controlling-human-societies-there-is-one-more-precise/)

[Alexis De Tocqueville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/)

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> [“In general, human societies are not innovative. They are hierarchical and ritualistic. Suggestions for change are greeted with suspicion: they imply an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/in-general-human-societies-are-not-innovative-they-are-hierarchical/)

[Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/)

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