Acknowledge Quote by Octavia E. Butler

I think human societies tend to be problematic.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized…

— John W. Gardner

“human societies always define themselves by their narrowest possible interests.That they are exclusive not inclusive.”

— Joel Shepherd

I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The catch is,…

— James Howard Kunstler

The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes,…

— Jared Diamond

I am fundamentally an anthropologist and a rationalist. What I say is that human societies are very different from what specialists call 'animal society'…

— Rene Girard

Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis,…

— Ed Ayres

Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated.

— Norman Davies

“we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.”

— Patricia Crone

...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately…

— Vaclav Smil

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on…

— Mortimer Adler