Top 100 Quotes About Human Society
#1. In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
Daisaku Ikeda
#2. Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.
Sissela Bok
#3. The Convention promulgated this great axiom: "The liberty of one citizen ends where the liberty of another citizen begins," which comprises in two lines the entire law of human society.
Victor Hugo
#4. Human society is ninety percent muck that won't disperse to the appropriate location that's why I chose the profession of plumber.
Rose Tremain
#5. Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made.
Orison Swett Marden
#6. Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
Victor Hugo
#7. Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
George Bernard Shaw
#8. I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.
Dalai Lama
#9. Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.
Abhijit Naskar
#10. Human society needs essntially fellow-feeling and unity. When these two are present, humanness will flourish.
Sathya Sai Baba
#11. Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.
Simone Weil
#12. The whole of organic nature on our planet exists only by a relentless war of all against all ... The raging war of interests in human society is only a feeble picture of an unceasing and terrible war of existence which reigns throughout the whole of the living world.
Ernst Haeckel
#13. Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.
David Dudley Field II
#14. Lord, there has never been a human society without overweening pride at the top and bitter envy at the bottom. That is why if the "have-nots" ever overthrow the "haves" they become the same.
Timothy Keller
#15. 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.
Raymond B. Fosdick
#16. Anything that seriously disturbs human society is absolutely not allowed to exist.
Li Hongzhi
#17. The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.
E. O. Wilson
#18. Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.
Roger Ebert
#19. In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.
Cesare Beccaria
#20. 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
#21. No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it on the same level as food and sex.
Fredric Lieberman
#22. True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.
Malcolm X
#23. 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
#24. Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces destruction also faces the opportunity to enter a period of renaissance. I think that, barring an accident, the wish to survive will keep us from a nuclear war.
Peace Pilgrim
#25. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.
Eric Hoffer
#26. 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.
Clarence Darrow
#27. The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible.
Sunday Adelaja
#28. 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
Omali Yeshitela
#29. Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.
Henry David Thoreau
#30. I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.
Brian Aldiss
#31. Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#32. The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.
Pope John XXIII
#33. The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.
Morihei Ueshiba
#34. 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.
Italo Calvino
#35. 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.
Johan Huizinga
#36. Without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible
George Bernard Shaw
#37. Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.
Elizabeth Carter
#42. An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing of the spirit. It is a generous and humane desire that all men may share equally in a common good. Our ideals are the cement, which binds human society.
Herbert Hoover
#43. 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.
Jeffrey Sachs
#44. A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
Ferdinand Buisson
#45. But be it so that public error must have a place in human society, still, in the kingdom of God, we must look and listen only to his eternal truth, against which no series of years, no custom, no conspiracy, can plead prescription.
John Calvin
#46. The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.
Pope Pius X
#47. Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of God, the moral ruler of the universe, and a rule of right and wrong, of just and unjust, binding upon man, preceding all institutions of human society and government.
John Quincy Adams
#48. When principles are so absurd and so destructive of human society, it may safely be averred, that the more sincere and the more disinterested they are, they only become the more ridiculous and the more odious.
David Hume
#49. Human society: it is an attempt - so I teach - a long seeking: it seeketh however the ruler! - An attempt, my brethren! And NO "contract"! Destroy, I pray you, destroy that word of the soft-hearted and half-and-half!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
Muhammad Yunus
#51. His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#52. 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
#53. Human society, they claimed, was a sort of monster, its main by-products being corpses and rubble.
Margaret Atwood
#54. We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly and proudly ... when our lives are suppressed, everyone is denied an understanding of the rich diversity of sex and gender expression and experience that exist in human society.
Leslie Feinberg
#55. We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.
Marianne Williamson
#56. 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
#57. Free love may try to dissolve, and the concubinate to desecrate, the holiest tie, as it pleases; but, for the vast majority of our race, marriage remains the foundation of human society and the family retains its position as the primordial sphere in sociology.
Abraham Kuyper
#58. Worldliness is actually a spirit, an atmosphere, an influence permeating the whole of life and human society, and it needs to be guarded against constantly and strenuously.
Billy Graham
#59. He asked himself whether human society could have the right also to subject its members,on the one hand,to its crazy lack of foresight and,on the other,to its pitiless foresight,and to hold a poor man forever between a lack and an excess-lack of work and excess of punishment
Victor Hugo
#60. The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.
Bertha Von Suttner
#61. A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable
Thabo Mbeki
#62. By accepting responsibility, we take effective steps toward our goal: an inclusive human society on a habitable planet, a society that works for all humans and for all nonhumans. By accepting responsibility, we move closer to creating a world that works for all.
Sharif Abdullah
#63. They belonged to the long and honorable human tradition that had spawned the Luddites, the flat-earthers, various bible-thumping faithies, the scientographers, and the back-earthies, not to mention all the other forms of the true believers that had parasitized human society over the millennia.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#64. Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.
Mahatma Gandhi
#65. You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.
Frans De Waal
#66. You are about to see a presentation which will explain to you how almost all of human society is being manipulated by a handful of deviant leaders who use all means to accomplish their monstrous missions.
Anonymous
#67. War, this monster of mutual slaughter among men, will be finally eliminated by the progress of human society, and in the not too distant future too.
Mao Zedong
#68. Human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate. Only understanding for our neighbors, justice in our dealings, and willingness to help our fellow men can give human society permanence and assure security for the individual.
Albert Einstein
#69. We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest
Thabo Mbeki
#70. The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.
Chris Hedges
#71. Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?
Charles Handy
#72. A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
Epictetus
#73. 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
#74. The United States now imprisons more people16 for drug offenses than Western European nations imprison for all crimes combined. No human society has ever before imprisoned this high a proportion of its population.
Johann Hari
#75. Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
Robert Anton Wilson
#76. The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati, as the ultimate objects of their union, are the overthrow of religion, government, and human society civil and domestic.
Timothy Dwight IV
#77. The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.
Peter Senge
#78. Not a tie hold me to human society at this moment - not a charm or hope calls me where my fellow-creatures are - none that saw me would have a kind thought or a good wish for me. I have no relative but the universal mother, Nature.
Charlotte Bronte
#79. There never was a state of human society so happily constituted, that the greater part followed Christ. Those who will enlist in the cause of Christ must learn this as one of their earliest lessons, and must "put on" this "armor," (Eph_6:11,) that they may be steadfast in believing on him.
Anonymous
#80. Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society - things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
E.B. White
#81. Being funny is one of the ultimate weapons a person can have in human society.
Jerry Seinfeld
#82. 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.
Karl Mannheim
#83. The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvaged the souls of the people who have brought the atomic bomb.
Kenzaburo Oe
#84. There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#85. Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
Seneca The Younger
#86. 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
#87. The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
Marquis De Custine
#88. 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.
Richard M. Weaver
#89. One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.
Louis Lecoin
#90. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein
#91. If you want to design a successful human society, you need to know what kind of animal we are. Are we a social animal or a selfish animal? Do we respond better when we're solitary or living in a group?
Frans De Waal
#92. Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#93. What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always,
whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme
that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to
be such when it ceases to be aristocratic
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#94. The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?
Sybille Bedford
#95. No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from other aspects of life: it's still embedded in religion, magic and social ceremonies.
Northrop Frye
#96. The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the outburst of violence in human society. To save the natural world today means to save what is human in humanity.
Raisa Gorbacheva
#98. 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
#99. 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.
Louis Lecoin
#100. 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
