Best Human Society Words
139 Human Society quotes by 114 unique authors
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All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is…
— Edward Said
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three…
— Stephen King
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His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but…
— Henri Nouwen
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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.…
— Aristotle
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The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
— Muhammad Yunus
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True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and…
— Malcolm X
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Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer.…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all…
— Roger Ebert
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find…
— Salman Rushdie
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Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term…
— Margaret Atwood
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The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the…
— George Orwell
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It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
— Thomas Aquinas
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I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of…
— Malcolm X
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If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war.…
— Louis Lecoin
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Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies. Nor…
— Pope Paul VI
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Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of…
— Christian Lous Lange
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Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has…
— James Madison
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Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the…
— Albert Einstein
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What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human society depends on…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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