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139 Human Society quotes by 114 unique authors

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal. — Edward Abbey
By accepting responsibility, we take effective steps toward our goal: an inclusive human society on a habitable planet, a society that works for all humans… — Sharif Abdullah
All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless… — Erich Fromm
You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human… — Clarence Darrow
We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly and… — Leslie Feinberg
We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of… — Ludwig von Mises
The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether… — Pope John XXIII
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how… — Christian Lous Lange
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human… — Kenneth Lee Pike
If the tribal peoples actually represented Western origins at a much earlier time, it was exceedingly valuable that they should be studied intensely for clues… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
The whole of organic nature on our planet exists only by a relentless war of all against all. ... The raging war of interests in… — Ernst Haeckel
Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field.... Access to employment [shall not be] made… — Pope Pius XII
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot. — Robert Anton Wilson
As the vice-regents of God, we are to bring His truth and His … dominion … over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government… our entertainment… — D. James Kennedy
The human society is the extension of the individual. Therefore, if we really want a radical change, if we want a better world, we need… — Samael Aun Weor
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. — Marquis de Custine
Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it… — David Bentley Hart
Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes… — Chapman Cohen
Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their… — Johan Huizinga
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is. — Dennis Gabor
The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society. — George Gilder
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable;… — David Hume
No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it on the same… — Unknown Author
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human… — Eric Hoffer
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society. — John Galsworthy

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