Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what… — Dennis Gabor Copy Share Image
History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies. — Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Copy Share Image
“The pillars of human society are covetousness, fear, and corruption,” retorted Grau. “Man is evil, but loves the good—when others do it.” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
“Without the waist string, kita todu, and a name, a child does not belong to human society: the passage from nature to… — Madhu Ramnath Copy Share Image
Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible. — Gus Hall Copy Share Image
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved.… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Human society, they claimed, was a sort of monster, its main by-products being corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Love will never be anywhere except where equality and unity are… And there can be no love where love does not find… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The greatest and noblest pleasure we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“From Marx, I received the concept of what human society is; otherwise, someone who hasn't read about it, or to whom it… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
If you look at the ox-herding pictures - specifically the newer set of ten pictures rather than the older set of eight… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When we fly planes over countries, dropping bombs on the evil ones, I think we're doing something very similar to what's being… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“Communication between people of different nationalities enriches human society and makes it more colourful.. Imagine our Russian intellectuals, the kind, merry, perceptive… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress. — William Feather Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati, as the ultimate objects of their union, are the overthrow of religion, government,… — Timothy Dwight IV Copy Share Image
One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members. — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that capitalism is a tiny period of human society. You never really had capitalism, you always had one or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real… — Elizabeth Carter Copy Share Image
Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective… — Alexander Zinoviev Copy Share Image
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on… — Ed Ayres Copy Share Image
The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
