Best Social Evolution Quotes

"We are somewhere new in history because of the power of our technology...we need to rise to a kind of collective consciousness."

"Conflict is how we get to the next level. It's important. We need it. It's an important part of our social evolution."

"So the sequence that one can reconstruct here is that people originally come together, perhaps from a very large landscape, they come together in order to construct these monuments, these rituals, circles themselves, and then gradually people live and live there longer and longer until you have a settlement that grows up around them."

"We didn't spend most of our history in tiny bands, agriculture was not some irreversible threshold of progress and inequality, and our first cities were often quite egalitarian."

"Humans have evolved to be social, and loneliness is as deadly for shortening lifespans as is smoking a pack of cigarettes every day."

"Maybe, if you had been able to fit into those standards, our society would have no hope of evolving at all."

"Humanity started without a state, in a hunter-gatherer society without a government."

"Millennials, we have embraced the idea of evolution in all other arenas of life."

"For me it's about people evolving giving people space to evolve I'm not into like canceling people and cancel culture doesn't really."

"People need to realize that we are evolving, we are changing, we are becoming a more inclusive society."

"We've evolved beyond many past beliefs, but still have a long way to go."

"The first person to throw an insult rather than a rock founded civilization."

"Racism is evolving. It's more nuanced. It's more subtle."

"We're in the middle of a revolution right now guys this is this is the start of something really big and this is not gonna be the final growing pain but just like all growing pains this one will be overcome."

"So have we also had this pressure against reactive aggression, have we somehow domesticated ourselves by perhaps slowly removing the most violent amongst us from the gene pool?"

"I love being with people. It's the most incredible thing in the world. That world may change and evolve but the one thing that will never change: we're all a part of one big family."

"The rich supply of food allowed new cultures to flourish and promoted social development."

"Capitalism uses the same principles as evolution. The strong enough survive and reproduce, the weak and the unfit die."

"It went from scary and controversial to something we can all laugh about." - "It went from a thing that's like, 'hey, this is scary and controversial,' to 'hey, this is something that we can at least all sort of communally laugh about.'"

"This greatly diminished tribal and ethnic solidarity and replaced both concepts with a sense of shared interest."

"Any great change that comes in the world over the last decades and hundreds of years didn't come quietly it came with noise. It came with blood."

"Transition from a civilization founded on virtue to one founded on narcissism."

"Formal marriage isn't the only structure in which to have a family."

"Human beings have evolved for face-to-face contact."

"Humans have empathy and emotions, partly because we evolved as a social species."

"We are living maybe in the last death throes of something that even slightly resembles an ancestral mating system."

"We evolved to be pro-social and collaborative intelligent beings."

"The popularity of costumed pinup photos led to a new idea of sexy costumes."

"Evolution we're gonna be seeing with people is gonna be crazy."

"Eventually, there will be more of us than there are of them."

"Really what this whole thing is about is the question how to be human and we are as a species or at least as a civilization reconsidering that question..."

"So instead of just being a person you could be a node and a collective of cognition."

"Women have never had dating, socializing, and work life as good as now in the history of mankind."

"Did this result surprise you? How do you think this future America and the world would develop?"

"The need for justice takes us up in that evolutionary way."

"We as a species are built evolved for connection and togetherness."

"These protocols we build are about inviting each and every person who uses them just for a moment to realize that we have a chance to evolve as a society and do things differently."

"The way to evolve is through different social identification."

"There's a midpoint that we're still evolving towards."

"Feminism has evolved into so much more than equality for the sexes."

"We have a choice. We don't have to keep carrying all these opinions and hatreds and fears from generation to generation."

"Society has moved from 'gay is bad' to broader acceptance of that community."

"Meeting people online and even developing close friendships and relationships with them is more than commonplace in our day and age than ever before in history."

"All of this is simply consciousness interacting with itself in a vast social network evolving over time."

"There was a time when there was no law against killing someone or raping someone or breaking into someone's house and taking their things, but as society evolved we had to make those laws and set those boundaries."

"Isn't it exciting that we're all finding each other? How many thousands all over the world are connected now in just the last decade?"

"Community has been going on since the dawn of man."

"A single unit of people in a single location can be any size from 1 to a billion, as long as they share the same three attributes: culture, religion, and social class."

"We are going to be moving into an age where community and collaboration become more important."

"It's a story of social progress. It's a story of human beings maturing to the point where they no longer need to be governed by non-human entities."

"To this day my entire family has no explanation as to how that club could have evolved to that point. It defies all logical explanation."

"Years ago this wouldn't have even gone to trial but the world is changing fast my friends."

"Change over time and things that were once taboo or not taboo."

"Their society became more stratified and specialized."

"We evolved for tribalism and religion... to make something sacred."

"Human beings have spent something like 99% of history in an extremely different kind of social situation."

"the social world is always evolving"

"Human societies do not evolve along a unilineal, universal, predetermined sequence of advancement."

"Their social development followed a similar path to ours, including industrial revolutions, social experiments, civil wars, and world wars, eventually reaching the point of globalization."

"The trend is towards complexity in an open society; it never seems to go the other way."

"Our tribes have gotten larger and larger and larger as time has gone on."

"For a hundred million years, ants have been perfecting the art of living together in complex societies."

"I'm hoping that the world evolves out of just the binary thinking because it isn't binary."

"We evolved to live in groups... where you feel connected to them and you don't feel isolated."

"My nation, my religion, my community, that narrow minded thinking is out of dated."

"The final Bronze Age saw the transition from tribal societies to aristocratic societies."

"What was deemed socially acceptable on some level in the 50s, 60s, 70s, or even 80s is thankfully not acceptable anymore."

"Pizza went from rags to riches and ultimately became a food for everyone."

"A Change Is Gonna Come will forever be correct in history."

"...over time, some subjects that could not be talked about earlier do get talked about later; topics that had been taboo earlier, people are freer to talk about later."

"It's the social changes, the cultural evolution, and the building of settlements that makes this such an important period of time."

"It's a really interesting topic and a lot of debates that's going on and how times have really changed."

"Violent capacity still prevails, but there is considerable improvement in social behavior than it was Millennia ago."

"For almost a million years, these apes would live in social colonies across the plains and savannas of eastern and southern Africa and were our earliest human ancestors."

"There have been greater social change in those three years than in the previous 500."

"Population mechanics end up developing this sense of empathy and caring for other people, and the selfishness gets weeded out."

"There's a lot of evidence to show that the reason we got to where we are is actually because of cooperation and being able to work together."

"Public opinion outside of the South evolved pretty dramatically."

"It's a sort of social symbiosis that would rock both the ancient world and our very genetics."

"Evolution thus favored those capable of forming strong social ties."

"The evolution of friendship and in-group bias is involved to support our capacity for cooperation."

"People evolve in groups, changing roles."

"Social change is a gradual evolutionary process by which structures become more complex."