Human Societies Quotes
24 quotes by 21 authors
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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 existed on earth.
— Mortimer Adler
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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
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Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.
— Emile Durkheim
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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 is ultimately run…
— Vaclav Smil
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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 capacity of their…
— William E. Rees
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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 wind up in…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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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 use.
— Jared Diamond
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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 the crisis, as…
— Ed Ayres
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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 beautifully organized to…
— John W. Gardner
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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
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The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.
— Ruth Benedict
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Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
— Whittaker Chambers
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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 own: one of…
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.
— Jared Diamond
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Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.
— Tony Kushner
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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 societies is tyranny.
— Michael Novak
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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 or fight. Something…
— Robert Wright
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Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go…
— Vandana Shiva
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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 antidote. Yes, environmental…
— Jared Diamond
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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.
— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
Who Wrote These Human Societies Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 24 Human Societies Quotes as follows: