Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“The moment when humanity learns to tame all its primeval biases, only then it will be worth the title "Sapiens", not any… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We no longer have any time to waste, entertaining our dark side. It is time we recognize those evil elements of our… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
“The high incidence of sociopathy in human society has a profound effect on the rest of us who must live on this… — Andrzej Lobaczewski Copy Share Image
Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy, such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat.… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how… — Robert May, Baron May of Oxford Copy Share Image
“What I am really writing about, what I have always written about, is the idea of human freedom, human community, the real… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Something is not yet right and ripe in our human society at the beginning of the 21st century and third millennium: missing… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
“If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primitive textual verses of the scriptures that demand one to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I might not have risen to destroy people's beliefs, but some beliefs do need destruction if the human society is meant to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
By accepting responsibility, we take effective steps toward our goal: an inclusive human society on a habitable planet, a society that works… — Sharif Abdullah Copy Share Image
The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
We may experience moments of profound inner peace, a sense of oneness with nature, or a sense of something that is more… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
