#societies

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#beautiful #blend #bottom #brazil #brown

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. ↗

— Karl Marx

#class #history #previous #societies #struggles

All societies are historical. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#societies

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#civilized #growing #i #i think #more

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#enables #people #societies

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

#adopt #considerable #either #else #fads

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#hierarchical #incredibly #mini #often #places

Life was never meant to be difficult, we just make it that way so that it fits into societies and our indoctrinated concept of what things should be like. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#difficult #indoctrination #life #societies #things

The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new. ↗

— Charles Eisenstein

#crises #economy #education #gift-economy #money

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#competing #contact #cultural #elsewhere #faster