The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. — Marquis de Custine 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
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
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 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
Enthusiasm produces the most cruel disorders in human society; but its fury is like that of thunder and tempest, which exhaust themselves… — David Hume Copy Share Image
You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about… — Erich Fromm 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
In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least… — Ellen Dissanayake 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
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
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
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we… — Saint Augustine 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
“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
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
The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole… — Barry Commoner 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
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
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society. — John Galsworthy 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
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
