Societies Quotes

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One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation of an alkaloid… — Richard Evans Schultes
Building a world where we meet our own needs without denying future generations a healthy society is not impossible, as some would assert. The question… — Christopher Flavin
Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered. — Jacqueline Novogratz
In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as… — Unknown Author
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. — S I Hayakawa
The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every… — James Q. Wilson
By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind… — Adam Weishaupt
... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the… — Plato
Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make… — Mark Steyn
It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event.… — Simon Kuper
As an engineer, I understood that the natural world operated according to fixed laws. Through my studies, I came to realize that there were, likewise,… — Charles Koch
Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies. — Jonathan Haidt
Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We donâ€™t really know, because the… — Jonathan Haidt
Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind. — Jonathan Haidt
An Israeli woman is not like women in our societies, because she is a soldier. — Yusuf al-Qaradawi
We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular solidarity with the… — Pope Francis
America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human beingâ€”confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-orientedâ€”is a vast improvement… — Dinesh D'Souza
Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in… — Jose Mujica
But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? If… — Peter Kropotkin
There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk of blueprints for… — Norman Thomas

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