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Societies 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…
- All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
- The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from…
- Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.
- Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term…
- 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…
- 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…
- Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks...…
More Societies Quotes
- Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times… — Ansel Adams
- There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.'… — Seth Shostak
- America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long. — Ron Paul
- I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed,… — Aime Cesaire
- Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men… — Gary Becker
- Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the… — Benazir Bhutto
- The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser… — Christian Nestell Bovee
- America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping… — Bill Bryson