« All Ethiopia Quotes
·
Jared Diamond's Page
Ethiopia Quotes by Jared Diamond
1 Ethiopia quote by Jared Diamond
More Quotes by Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond has 90 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in…
-
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…
-
In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
-
In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce…
-
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder…
-
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants…
-
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations…
-
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of…
-
When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming…
-
The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
-
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with…
-
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or…
See all 90 quotes by Jared Diamond »
More Ethiopia Quotes
Popular Ethiopia quotes from across the collection:
-
We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and…
— David Attenborough
-
U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife,…
— Bono
-
Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me…
— Bono
-
I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
-
One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has…
— Al Gore
-
The Duce will have Ethiopia, with or without the Ethiopians.
— Unknown Author
-
Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries.…
— Eskinder Nega
-
I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
— Jack Kingston
-
In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.
— Jack Kingston
-
One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of…
— Steven Morrissey
-
I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.
— Abebe Bikila
-
Of all the exotic aromas and experiences from my sojourn in Ethiopia, it’s the frankincense I miss most.
— Cathleen Falsani
See all Ethiopia Quotes »
Browse Jared Diamond Quotes by Category