Groups Quote by Henning Mankell

The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.

— Wei Jingsheng

In some ways, I believe that we are moving into a post-historical period, for lack of a better term. A time when whatever functioned…

— Mark Pesce

Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values,…

— Peter Drucker

Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit…

— Paul J. McAuley

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

— Woodrow Wilson

Human beings disappear; their histories remain.

— Bernard Stiegler

It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community…

— Lauren Groff

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

— Voltaire

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

— Pope Francis

“Closing the dictionary and opening any history of civilizations, the curious reader might consider the characteristics of societies in decay. At the meeting point…

— John Ralston Saul

“No two societies create the same institutions; they will have distinct customs, different systems of property rights, and different ways of dividing a killed…

— Daron Acemoğlu

I think we live in a period of profound transformation. Very similar to when we had a transition from agricultural societies to industrial societies.

— Angela Merkel