Quotes About Evolution

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by side in future civilization.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.

There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.

I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.

'The Outsider' is a culmination of a lot of things I've been working diligently toward as a recording artist. Hopefully it will render my past pigeonholing obsolete while positioning me more solidly as a socially conscious American singer/songwriter. Wouldn't that be entertaining?

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.

If a male primate is mean to a female primate, her whole family will come after him. We don't have that sort of accountability in industrial societies.

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.

All societies are historical.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.

When we talk about technology, often, we talk about the fact that it's going to be cool; it's going to do all these things for us. But at the same time, technology will deeply change our societies.

Societies go backwards sometimes.

I think football reflects our society. Our society changes. The evolution of society dictates the evolution of the game.

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.

The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.

We have salads, some other beverages. But in reality, it's still fundamentally the same business. The most likely thing the next person will buy is a sandwich and a soft drink. After a half-century of glacial change, we're still pretty much the same business.