Human Society Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Garbage, Transforming

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• Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.

  Vandana Shiva

  Real, Believe, Responsibility

  "In the Footsteps of Gandhi: An Interview with Vandana Shiva". Interview with Scott London, www.globalresearch.ca. February 03, 2016.

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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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• Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces destruction also faces the opportunity to enter a period of renaissance. I think that, barring an accident, the wish to survive will keep us from a nuclear war.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, War, Thinking

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.105, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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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

  Men, Perfection, Contemplation

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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 life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.

  George Orwell

  Cutting, Years, Common Humanity

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

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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 gain for long-term pain.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pain, Mistake, Long

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.243, Anchor

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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 not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Imagination, Literature

  The Hindu, February 26, 1995.

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• For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference.

  Jared Diamond

  Differences, Environmental, Making A Difference

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.308, Penguin

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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 times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Curiosity, Calling

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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

  Suicide, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.318, Harvard University Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.

  Mortimer Adler

  Thinking, Justice, Different

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