Societies are like single men; they spend too much time pleasuring themselves and zero time making love. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
“What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Southeast Asia is an area in which there is a form of Islam which is both devout and progressive, and therefore to… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society.… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well -… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for… — Svante Paabo Copy Share Image
Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time… — John Pomfret Copy Share Image
Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not… — Douglas Feith 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
I guess I've always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them. — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
“There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies. — David Lee Copy Share Image
People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain… — Eric S. Raymond 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
