Human society Quotes

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

— James Anthony Froude

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

— Victor Hugo

My country will be a symbol of free human society.

— Fela Kuti

Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

— Seneca the Younger

“without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible”

— George Bernard Shaw

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

— Brian Aldiss

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

— George Gilder

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

No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it…

— Fredric Lieberman

The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every…

— Sybille Bedford

We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle…

— Marianne Williamson

Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

— Muhammad Yunus

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

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

Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm…

— James Joyce

Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence…

— Blaise Pascal

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about…

— Kevin Kelly

Something is not yet right and ripe in our human society at the beginning of the 21st century and third millennium: missing…

— Robert Muller

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

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

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

“Changing the spelling of one's name to ensure success, performing rituals for good luck, wearing colored gem stones for success in business…

— Abhijit Naskar

Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean…

— Victor Hugo

“We need to change our way of seeing the world and relating to it, not because our current way is intrinsically bad…

— Ilchi Lee

I am persuaded to think that any climate change is bad because of the investments and adaptations that have been made by…

— Fred Singer

“Human society should very seriously understand that the body itself is the source of all miserable life. Modern civilization is supposed to…

— Anonymous

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

“I am no feminist. Even though the term "feminism" is founded upon the basic principle of gender equality, it possesses its own…

— Abhijit Naskar

“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

“The portentous development of our present economic system, leading to a mighty accumulation of social wealth in the hands of privileged minorities…

— Rudolf Rocker

“You cannot escape that you are a woman,” she began. “I wish I could,” Firekeeper muttered, but Elise continued as if she…

— Jane Lindskold

History was invented as a tool, an engineered road down which human society could advance.

— Bettany Hughes

Every human society has its lights and its shadows. That's the reality of existence.

— Sebastian Lelio

If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

— Louis Lecoin

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

— Edmund Wilson