Balance Quote by David Eagleman

To overcome our biological limitations as individuals, we have co-evolved collective systems and capacities - cultural, social, economic, political, scientific, media, educational, public relations,…

— Tom Atlee

I think it is better for societies if no one dominates forever.

— Jean Louis

People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational…

— Theodore Kaczynski

Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and…

— Aldous Huxley

Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a dishonest minority;…

— Bruce Schneier

We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

— Susan Sontag

“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of…

— Alexander von Humboldt

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it…

— Peter L. Berger

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few…

— William Hazlitt

A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.

— Peter Farb

I think human societies tend to be problematic.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates