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Human Quotes by Jared Diamond
- Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.
- All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
- Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?
- Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes…
- Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our mates is that…
- Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For…
- Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.
- For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental…
- Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
- Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.
- The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals…
- The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among…
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of… — Steve Carell
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein