Human Societies Quotes

24 quotes by 21 authors

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth. — Mortimer Adler
There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have… — Dan Simmons
Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description. — Emile Durkheim
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run… — Vaclav Smil
Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their… — William E. Rees
The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. — Jared Diamond
Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as… — Ed Ayres
Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to… — John W. Gardner
Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most… — Algernon Sidney
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. — Ruth Benedict
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies. — Whittaker Chambers
The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. — Jared Diamond
Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies. — Tony Kushner
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny. — Michael Novak
If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something… — Robert Wright
Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy â€” not democracy as the right to go… — Vandana Shiva
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… — Jared Diamond
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

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