"Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the daily life of most humans ran its course within three ancient frames: the nuclear family, the extended family and the local intimate community. Most people worked in the family business – the family farm or the family workshop, for example – or they worked in their neighbours’ family businesses. The family was also the welfare system, the health system, the education system, the construction industry, the trade union, the pension fund, the insurance company, the radio, the television, the newspapers, the bank and even the police."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Government
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Government
315 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Government →
Related Quotes
""Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law whi…"
"I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,—thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party."
"States are great engines moving slowly."
"Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe."
"Perish commerce. Let the constitution live!"
"England is the mother of parliaments."
"Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive bacillum vere superius inflexum sit."
"It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king."
"Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King."
"Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government…"