The Company of Strangers Quotes

“Homo sapiens sapiens, the shy, murderous ape,”
― Paul Seabright, The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life - Revised Edition

“Homo sapiens sapiens, the shy, murderous ape, may be spreading pestilence and pollution on a global scale, but his violent instincts at least seem to have been triumphantly tamed.”
― Paul Seabright, The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life - Revised Edition

“taking care to make himself always indispensable in at least two places at once”
― Paul Seabright, The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life - Revised Edition