Human Society Quotes

Human Society Quote of the day

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.

The human society is the extension of the individual. Therefore, if we really want a radical change, if we want a better world, we need to change individually.

If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

The police become necessary in human society Only at that junction in human society Where it is split between those who have and those who ain’t got

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

Anything that seriously disturbs human society is absolutely not allowed to exist.

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment.

Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.

Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

You couldn't have human society without language.

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

I think it is important to be aware that the Internet has replaced the television, and has become a place where the uniformity of human society is accelerated.

You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.