Begin Quote by Mark Pagel

I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as…

— Mark Pagel

I think when there's so much information to be eaten up, and so many ways to do it, people cling to groups. I think…

— Kristen Bell

For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each…

— Patch Adams

We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in…

— Jonathan Haidt

There's this homogenization, this big sucking motion in dominant society, to absorb all the disparate elements that define the margin or define the culture…

— Todd Haynes

The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends…

— Carl Rogers

It is key that everyone gives everything of themselves to the group. You also have to create an environment where everybody can be themselves…

— Jesse Marsch

It is unfortunate that we should find ourselves at this time the only disorganized group. Others have had the advantage of organization for centuries,…

— Marcus Garvey

There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some…

— Arthur Keith

Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or…

— Vasily Grossman

Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with…

— J. Philippe Rushton

“The effort to separate ourselves whether by race, creed, color, religion, or status is as costly to the separator as to those who would…

— Melba Pattillo Beals