Human Society Quotes - Page 2

• 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. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

  Louis Lecoin

  Peace, War, Being Real

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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. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Soul, Vices

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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 the Human Society complete.

  Malcolm X

  Religious, Political, Religion

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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

  Museums, Doe, Poverty

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2012

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• In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

  Michael Novak

  Default, Tyranny, Humans

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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 social morality.

  John Locke

  Love, Pregnancy, Might

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• Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.

  Tony Kushner

  Unions, Humans, Susceptible

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• The family is the first essential cell of human society.

  Pope John XXIII

  Inspirational, Family, Inspiring

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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 another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Political, Mind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.106, Rajpal & Sons

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• The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

  James Anthony Froude

  Endurance, Poor, Inequality

  James Anthony Froude (1894). “Caesar: a Sketch”

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• All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Opportunity

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• Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

  Jared Diamond

  Independent, Innovation, Openness

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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 superstructure of human society?

  Ani DiFranco

  Elephants, Rooms, Planets

  "'I'm considering a revolution'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2007.

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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 workers.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mean, Aquariums, Essentials

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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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 in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

  Wole Soyinka

  Firsts, Facts, Evolution

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Jan 23, 2015

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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 not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.

  Edward Said

  Historical Knowledge, Data, Purpose

  Edward W. Said (2015). “Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World”, p.240, Vintage

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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 roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Karma, Art, Peace

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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. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Men, Self

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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 society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Business, Museums, Luxury

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.223, PublicAffairs

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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 men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Business, Men

  Getting Married (1911) preface "The Personal Sentimental Basis of Monogamy"

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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 are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross.

  Henri Nouwen

  Heart, Two, Tasks

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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 and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

  Stephen King

  Falling In Love, Fear, Home

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.454, Hachette UK

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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 — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

  E. B. White

  Change, Dark, Clouds

  Letter to M. Nadeau, March 30, 1973.

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• If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something similar might be said about human societies. If two nearby societies are in contact for any length of time, they will either trade or fight. The first is non-zero-sum social integration, and the second ultimately brings it.

  Robert Wright

  Zero, Mean, Fighting

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• Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Garbage, Transforming

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