Inequality Quote by Jared Diamond Download Open image ““Why you white man have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little? (asked Yali)”” — Jared Diamond ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inequality
Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“I suppose my biggest frustration is that we as white people come into a culture and demand that the natives do things our way.… — Tracie Peterson Copy Share Image
“These white people think this country belongs to them - they don't realize that they are only in charge right now because there's more… — Anna Mae Pictou Aquash Copy Share Image
“Increasingly anthropologists are being asked "what can you do for us?" by the people whose societies they are doing research on. It is sometimes… — Anthony Seeger Copy Share Image
“The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in… — George Crook Copy Share Image
“I hope some cool-headed white men will make the Negroes save the rice for us. It is so much needed. They say it might… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
“The white man comes, pale as the dawn, with a load of thought, with a slumbering intelligence as a fire raked up, knowing well… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If you are stealing something it’s better if it’s small and hideable or something you can eat quickly and be done with, like guavas.… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
“But a Congolese life is like the useless Congolese bill, which you can pile by the fistful or the bucketful into a merchant's hand,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do,… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
“Wherever the white man goes he attempts to impose the bases of his ordered civilization. He puts down tribal war, he wages truceless combat… — T. Lothrop Stoddard Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“We come to conquer this land by his command, that all may come to a knowledge of God and of His Holy Catholic Faith;… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“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… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Those parasites pass to a person from an eaten animal, but the virus causing laughing sickness (kuru) in the New Guinea highlands used to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“...invokes the supposed stimulatory effects of their homeland's cold climate and the inhibitory effects of hot, humid, tropical climates on human creativity and energy.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Inequality is pervasive but invisible. It's hard to see. You need a sort of tool to make it visible. — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
Yeah, maybe that's the way to solve the gender inequality that's naturally in relationships: to have a lot more power in the woman. — Celine Song Copy Share Image
“In no country does the average income give the right picture of how people live but in a country with higher inequality it is… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at… — Plato Copy Share Image
I made an effort to ensure social safeguards. But our economy has to grow - and Chile, with a population of 17 million, cannot… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
I don't know another way to try to deal with income inequality than actually having entrepreneurs and inventors creating the kind of jobs that… — Francis X. Suarez Copy Share Image
I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image