Human Society Quotes

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein

Society, Human, Individual

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma Gandhi

Society, Mind, Political

The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIII

Family, Society, Human

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
Mason Cooley

Nature, Society, Human

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
John Locke

Love, Truth, Society

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.
Jinato Hu

Society, Today, Human

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.
Ani DiFranco

Society, Human, Talk

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
Wole Soyinka

Power, History, Truth

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
Kenneth L. Pike

Change, Society, Human

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
Daisaku Ikeda

Society, Past, Human

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
Lascelles Abercrombie

Society, Forward, Human

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.
Adrienne Rich

Change, Women, Society

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

Life, Society, Human

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
Kevin Kelly

Future, Society, Science

The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.
Barry Commoner

Society, Human, Small

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
Orson Scott Card

Good, Society, Human

Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.
Christian Lous Lange

Society, Political, Human

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.
Christian Lous Lange

Respect, Society, Spiritual

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
James Anthony Froude

Life, Society, Human

I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.
Sebastian Junger

Men, Society, Human

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
Benjamin Tucker

Society, Human, Seen

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
Benjamin Tucker

Life, Society, Nothing

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
Ezra Stiles

Society, Wisdom, Justice

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.
Isaac Barrow

Men, Society, Human

I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.
Simon Winchester

Society, Science, Human

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
Claudio Hummes

Power, History, Society

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

Society, Human, Conceive

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.
George Gilder

Society, Important, Human

Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
Yuan T. Lee

Nature, Society, Knowledge

You couldn't have human society without language.
John M. Smith

Society, Human, Language

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