Human Society Quotes - Page 5

• No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it on the same level as food and sex.

  Fredric Lieberman

  Sex, Past, Cooking

  "An Interview with Mickey Hart" by Michael J. Vaughn, www.themontserratreview.com. 1999.

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• The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

  Eric Hoffer

  Wisdom, Children, Knowledge

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

  John Galsworthy

  Animal, Compassion, Suffering

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7260, Delphi Classics

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• All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Reality, Men

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• The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

  Noah Webster

  Book, Men, Evil

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• The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Anxiety, Suffering, Samurai

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• Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Opportunity, Self, Preparation

  Orison Swett Marden, G. R. Devitt (1901). “Success Library”

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• The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.

  Chris Hedges

  Atheist, Angel, Perfect

  Chris Hedges (2009). “When Atheism Becomes Religion: America's New Fundamentalists”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .

  Peter Senge

  Interdependence, Humans

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• Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall.

  Ed Ayres

  Courage, Fall, Acceptance

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• If you see the fury and hear the howling of the tempest, or read of shipwrecks, think of the storm of human passions causing daily groans and disturbance in the hearts of men, wrecking the spiritual ship of the soul or the ship of human society; and pray fervently to the Lord that He may subdue the tempest of sins, as He once subdued the tempest at sea by His word, and that He may root our passions from our hearts, and re-establish in them unceasing tranquility.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Spiritual, Passion

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• I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

  Italo Calvino

  May, Assuming, Form

  Italo Calvino (2010). “Invisible Cities”, p.123, Random House

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• If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

  Ernest A. Fortin

  Years, Four, Honey

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• For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Iron, Differences

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.68, HarperCollins UK

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• I am persuaded to think that any climate change is bad because of the investments and adaptations that have been made by human beings and all of the things that support human existence upon this globe. Even minor fluctuations of climate could change the distribution of fish, … upset agriculture,…and inundate costal cities…… Such changes could occur at a faster rate perhaps than human society can evolve.

  Fred Singer

  Thinking, Agriculture, Cities

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• The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

  Edmund Wilson

  Imagination, Possibility, Humans

  Edmund Wilson (2007). “Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s”

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• In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

  Ezra Stiles

  Wisdom, Justice, World

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• Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.

  John W. Gardner

  Men, Good Man, Society

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.12, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most wicked, if men might not justly defend themselves against injustice by their own natural right, when the ways prescribed by publick authority cannot be taken.

  Algernon Sidney

  Fall, Taken, Men

  Algernon Sidney (1805). “Discourses on Government”, p.431

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• To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  War, Philosophy, Men

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• The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvaged the souls of the people who have brought the atomic bomb.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  People, Soul, Aftermath

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• Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

  Seneca the Younger

  Fall, Inspiration, Arches

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• ... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.

  Jon Wynne-Tyson

  Character, Mean, Animal

  Jon Wynne-Tyson (1972). “The Civilised Alternative: A Pattern for Protest”

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• The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

  E. O. Wilson

  Strong, Emotional, Broken

  "On Human Nature". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1978.

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• The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Ideas, Two

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.1075, Lulu Press, Inc

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