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People Quotes by Jared Diamond
- Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or religion helps solve…
- With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared…
- But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the…
- Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of…
- I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
- Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a…
- Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more…
- In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles…
- The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could…
- People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important…
- [T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.
- With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without…
- The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle