The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
“Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any… — David Dudley Field II Copy Share Image
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… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“There is no human society, however isolated, that has not developed and employed poetry as a cultural practice.” — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
The police become necessary in human society Only at that junction in human society Where it is split between those who have… — Omali Yeshitela Copy Share Image
To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
“If human society produces children like cats and dogs for the disturbance of social order, then the world becomes hellish, as it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the… — William E. Rees Copy Share Image
“After all,' he said, “I suppose there are things that nothing can kill and that remain forever intact. It’s as if nothing… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places,… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
“We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we don’t… — C. N. Lester Copy Share Image
“We need to build a new cooperative social order out beyond the principles of hierarchy, rule out competitiveness. Starting in the grass… — Carol P. Christ Carol Plaskow Copy Share Image
I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its members to suffer equally in one case for its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I perfectly understand the particular attention which you pay to the question of nuclear energy, and fully realize the possible dangers and… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
“Wolves regularly attacked their rivals in power, so the idea of killing to gain position was neither alien nor repulsive to her.… — Jane Lindskold Copy Share Image
If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different… — Raymond B. Fosdick Copy Share Image
The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution. — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
I think it is important to be aware that the Internet has replaced the television, and has become a place where the… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society… — Jon Wynne-Tyson Copy Share Image
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue – therefore, the future will belong to people ready for change.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image