Quotes About Evolution Of Society

#1. The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in which all individuals are enabled to maximize their potential, and to contribute to the evolution of society as a whole.

Kofi Annan

#2. You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

Jean Chretien

#3. People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it - otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.

Greg Graffin

#4. I think the idea of individualism has become more dominating in our society. You can even see it by our political system: how people vote, the job situation, the sociological evolution that's happening, what's happening in the Middle East and so forth.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#5. The main goal is to increase diversity. The one thing that is bad for society is low diversity. This is true for culture or evolution, for species and also for whole societies. If you become a monoculture, you are at great risk of perishing.

George M. Church

#6. Most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

Idries Shah

#7. You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

Eugenie Scott

#8. A knowledge both of the factors of evolution and how they operate in human society becomes necessary if we are to develop a sound social order.

Conway Zirkle

#9. In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

Noam Chomsky

#10. We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

Stefan Molyneux

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

Pope Pius X

#12. The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

Simone Weil

#13. Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a dishonest minority; if society makes its dishonest minority too small, it stifles dissent as well as common crime.

Bruce Schneier

#14. I regret having to play the role of Cassandra once more and having to disappoint the fresh hopes of certain ever hopeful colleagues, but there is no possible evolution in a totalitarian society.

Albert Camus

#15. There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

Ibrahim Babangida

#16. Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.

Herbert Spencer

#17. Nearly all libertarians were once conservatives or progressives or independent statists of some stripe. But scarcely any conservatives, progressives, or independent statists were once libertarians. This asymmetry in the direction of ideological migration is interesting and perhaps informative.

Robert Higgs

#18. Somehow creationists keep us naturalists in track to some extent. They are the representation of human stupidity at its extreme. And we need some stupidity in the society for true intellect to be adored.

Abhijit Naskar

#19. Being human trespass the conditionings of the laws of the worlds that have been created by the conditioned society - these reflective of a conditioned mind reflect the facets of the self, to discipline and educate indirectly; restrict evolution for pardon, and affliction

AainaA-Ridtz

#20. Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

Havelock Ellis

#21. ... we live in a society of larvae--immature human beings, adolescents disguised as adults.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

#22. Despite 2000 years of evolution in modern times, we have still not managed to develop the intelligence to create a society that knows what love is. Our society is still not a civilization, it is still primitive and barbaric.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#23. in the evolution of a society, continued investment in complexity as a problem-solving strategy yields a declining marginal return.

Joseph A. Tainter

#24. The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

Maria Montessori

#25. We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution - like, what do we want to be when we grow up?

Paul Gilding

#26. The department of home economics was organized to train a woman in efficiency and to develop her outlook to life. Such a department is a necessity as a means of developing a society. It stands for the evolution of women's work and place.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#27. Anyone who writes about Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.

Ernst Mayr

#28. Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.

Matt Ridley

#29. The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.

Patrick Chappatte

#30. People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.

Theodore Kaczynski

#31. Each business is a victim of Digital Darwinism, the evolution of consumer behavior when society and technology evolve faster than the ability to exploit it. Digital Darwinism does not discriminate. Every business is threatened.

Brian Solis

#32. I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.

Peter Thiel

#33. 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

#34. Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document.

Al Franken

#35. The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

Ralph Waldo Emerson