Sociability is so inherent in human nature that no period of history shows people living as isolated families fighting for subsistence

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• Humans depend on co-operation, and nature has given them, somewhat inadequately, the instincts for the friendliness it needs BRBertrand Russellc. 1930
• Cooperation, not struggle, drives human evolution, so the fighting instinct should be eliminated from people SYSun Yat-sen25 Apr 1921
• Human progress is not inevitable; it comes through tireless effort, and without it time favors social stagnation MJMartin Luther King Jr.c. 1963–1964
• Neither the centralized State nor teachings of pitiless struggle could uproot the feeling of human solidarity PKPeter Kropotkinc. 1890–1902
• No society can flourish when most of its members are poor, and those who feed and house everyone deserve to be decently fed and housed ASAdam Smith9 Mar 1776

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