Best Human Society Quotations
139 Human Society quotes by 114 unique authors
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You couldn't have human society without language.
— John Maynard Smith
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Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many…
— Yuan T. Lee
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Whoever hesitates while waiting for ideas to triumph among the masses before initiating revolutionary action will never be a revolutionary. Humanity will, of course, change.…
— Fidel Castro
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Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
— Hu Shih
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The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
— Claudio Hummes
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I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but…
— Sebastian Junger
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Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
— Northrop Frye
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The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in…
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience…
— Raymond Williams
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You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.
— Frans de Waal
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If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of…
— William Wilberforce
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Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and…
— William Wordsworth
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I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said, and still believe…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
— James Anthony Froude
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
— Mason Cooley
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Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the…
— Ani DiFranco
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All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
— Albert Einstein
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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The family is the first essential cell of human society.
— Pope John XXIII
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in…
— John Locke
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by…
— Adrienne Rich
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define…
— Wole Soyinka
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Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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