#human societies

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

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All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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

— Mortimer Adler

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Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny. ↗

— Michael Novak

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