Aids Quote by Noam Chomsky

“Darwinism met with such overwhelming success because it provided, on the basis of inheritance, the ideological weapons for race and well as class rule…

— Hannah Arendt

Regarding social order, [Francis] Fukuyama writes, "The systematic study of how order, and thus social capital, can emerge in spontaneous and decentralized fashion is…

— Douglass North

“It was the great Hungarian-born polymath John von Neumann who first recognized that social behavior could be analyzed as games.”

— Sylvia Nasar

“He [William Jennings Bryan] recognized that what Darwin proposed on the biological level, when applied on the societal level, might legitimize an ideology that…

— Tony Campolo

“Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities." - Alfred L. Kroeber”

— Alfred L. Kroeber

“advocates of evolutionary theory since Thomas H. Huxley (1825–95) have found altruism problematic.”

— Karen Armstrong

Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in biology and…

— Frederick Sanger

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

— Herbert Read

My roots, in college, were in behavior in the context of evolution.

— Robert Sapolsky

Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.

— Peter Singer

“During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as humanism gained increasing social credibility and political power, it sprouted two very different offshoots: socialist humanism, which…

— Yuval Noah Harari

A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological…

— William James