"A blueprint for disaster in any society is……" — Jared Diamond

"A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves."

— Jared Diamond

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88 Quotes by Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond has 88 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural…
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being…
In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex…
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago…
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of…
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions…
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long…
When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you…
The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end…
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared…

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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were… — Karen Armstrong
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