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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… — Mortimer Adler
- There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Jared Diamond
- Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on… — 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… — 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… — 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