A Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think human societies tend to be problematic.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
American - Journalist
Born: September 30, 1975

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

History shows that societies where opportunity is safeguarded tend to be societies that are good international citizens.

Richard N. Haass

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

Mary Catherine Bateson

I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment. Freud is right: societies either become locked in a collective embrace of Eros, as individuals do, or a collective embrace of Thanatos, the death instinct. They swing between the two. The notion that societies are naturally prone toward self-preservation is wrong. Self-annihilation can be deeply addictive, intoxicating, enticing. So I take a darker view of human nature, that war is probably always going to be with us. I think history bears me out.

Chris Hedges

I think that in free societies, and we're constantly talking about living in free societies, aren't we, in contradiction with unhappy people who live in non-free societies, that the benefit, the dividend of living in a free society is that you say what you think.

Malcolm Muggeridge

In authoritarian societies, cultural institutions tend to become ideological proxies - think of the National Ballet in Cuba or the East German gymnastics team.

Jacob Weisberg

On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that today I see most of the symptoms of societies on the brink of collapse, not just in the U.S., but in the tightly interconnected societies of Western civilization - now essentially world civilization.

Arthur Demarest

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

We usually forget that apart from making a living on this earth, human beings live in societies and these societies have cultures. It is only through having cultures that mankind on this earth has an ordered and meaningful life. Music and drama are two of the many important manifestation of a culture. They are important because they represent the expressions emanating from the power of human artistic creativity

Tunku Abdul Rahman

I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.

Paolo Bacigalupi

In a cross-cultural study of 173 societies (by Herbert Barry and L. M. Paxson of the University of Pittsburgh) 76 societies typically had mother and infant sharing a bed; in 42 societies they shared a room but not a bed; and in the remaining 55 societies they shared a room with a bed unspecified. There were no societies in which infants routinely slept in a separate room.

Melvin Konner

I think we live in a period of profound transformation. Very similar to when we had a transition from agricultural societies to industrial societies.

Angela Merkel

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

I believe all societies, all thriving societies of the future are going to be multicultural societies.

Manmohan Singh

For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference.

Jared Diamond

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.