Human Society Quotes - Page 3

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

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Garbage, Transforming

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

  Jared Diamond

  Independent, Innovation, Openness

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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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• 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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• 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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• In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Encouragement, Past, Opportunity

  Daisaku Ikeda (2017). “Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays”, p.34, Middleway Press

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

  Pope John XXIII

  Inspirational, Family, Inspiring

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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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• 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 is it brought about by dictatorship. Instead, it is rightly and appropriately called "an enterprise of justice" (Is. 32:7). Peace results from that order structured into human society by its divine founder, and actualized by men as they thirst after ever greater justice.

  Pope Paul VI

  Peace, War, Men

  "Gaudium et Spes". § 78, December 7, 1965.

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

  Louis Lecoin

  Peace, War, Being Real

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• Love the family! Defend and promote it as the basic cell of human
  society; nurture it as the prime sanctuary of life. Give great care to the
  preparation of engaged couples and be close to young married couples, so
  that they will be for their children and the whole community an eloquent
  testimony of God's love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Marriage, Children, Couple

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• Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy,
  such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age of "universal education and sustenance of all humanity".
  "The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Heart, Wind

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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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