All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“The human society has evolved war as a cultural institution, like the science of astronomy, or mathematics. War is a part of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence… — Algernon Sidney 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
We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The literary game is the abyss of human society itself: interactive, playful and tragic. We can't live alone. For me, Robinson [Crusoe]… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Sometimes that irrational commitment to principle is what society needs to survive. Whenever you talk about radicalism, whenever you talk about activism,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“We need to change our way of seeing the world and relating to it, not because our current way is intrinsically bad… — Ilchi Lee 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
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
“The portentous development of our present economic system, leading to a mighty accumulation of social wealth in the hands of privileged minorities… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“I have to admit we are locked in the most exquisite mysterious muck. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“Acquiring knowledge through the centuries has influenced human society more than all other factors.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were… — Adolf Hitler 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
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it… — Fredric Lieberman 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society,… — Adam Smith 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