Quotes About Society

Mother Nature does not mind if men are sexually attracted to one another. It's only human mothers steeped in particular cultures who make a scene if their son has a fling with the boy next door. The mother's tantrums are not a biological imperative. A significant number of human cultures have viewed homosexual relations as not only legitimate but even socially constructive,..

Un gran número de extraños pueden cooperar con éxito si creen en mitos comunes. Cualquier cooperación humana a gran escala (ya sea un Estado moderno, una iglesia medieval, una ciudad antigua o una tribu arcaica) está establecida sobre mitos comunes que solo existen en la imaginación colectiva de la gente.

If you told people in the Middle Ages that within a few centuries God will be dead, they would have been horrified. 'How can we live without God? Who will give life meaning and protect us from chaos?' Looking

Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But

the American founding document promises that if humans act according to its sacred principles, millions of them would be able to cooperate effectively, living safely and peacefully in a just and prosperous society

The new ethic promises paradise on condition that the rich remain greedy and spend their time making more money, and that the masses give free rein to their cravings and passions – and buy more and more. This

El dinero es el más universal y más eficiente sistema de confianza mutua que jamás se haya inventado.

us. Christians and Muslims who could not agree on religious beliefs could nevertheless agree on a monetary belief, because whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something.

Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any

There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no lawn, no justice outside the common imagination of human beings

The Catholic alpha male abstains from sexual intercourse and raising a family, even though there is no genetic or ecological reason for him to do so.

Just imagine how difficult it would've been to create churches, states or laws, if we could only speak about things that really exist, like lions or rivers

Does the data about my DNA, my brain, and my life belong to me, to the government, to a corporation, or to the human collective?

The individual will not be crushed by Big Brother; it will disintegrate from within.

The most likely answer is the very thing that makes the devate possible: Homo sapiens conquered the world thanks above all to its unique language

La mayoría de las jerarquías sociopolíticas carecen de una base lógica o biológica: no son más que la perpetuación de acontecimientos aleatorios sostenidos por mitos.

Si nuestra mente es la de los cazadores-recolectores, nuestra cocina es la de los antiguos agricultores.

The writing is on the wall: equality is out – immortality is in.

Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully when they believe in common myths

la religión ha sido la tercera gran unificadora de la humanidad, junto con el dinero y los imperios. Puesto

These forfeited food surpluses fuelled politics, wars, art and philosophy. They built palaces, forts, monuments and temples.

Everyone always wants money because everyone else also always wants money,

is an iron rule of history that every imagined hierarchy disavows its fictional origins and claims to be natural and inevitable.

History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets. An