Societies Quotes

629 Societies quotes by 480 unique authors

People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting… — Eric S. Raymond
Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into… — Michael Ignatieff
The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies. — Joe Biden
Societies are not sustainable without institutions. — Mo Ibrahim
Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider. — Mitch Kapor
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance. — Gloria Steinem
Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs… — Barry Ritholtz
I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The catch is, how… — James Howard Kunstler
There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to… — Walter Lippmann
Education enables people and societies to be what they can be. — Bill Richardson
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… — Jared Diamond
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among… — Jared Diamond
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...… — Jared Diamond
And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies… — Samuel P. Huntington
Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer… — John Redwood
I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect… — John Pomfret
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned. — Natan Sharansky
Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have… — Natan Sharansky
But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these… — Ferdinand Lassalle
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what… — Jean-Francois Lyotard

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