Human Society Quotes

• A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Compassion, Animal

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.339, Princeton University Press

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• The human society is the extension of the individual. Therefore, if we really want a radical change, if we want a better world, we need to change individually.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Needs, World, Want

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• There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

  Edward Abbey

  Civilization, Names, Worthy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.23, RosettaBooks

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• Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

  Victor Hugo

  World, Alphabet, Language

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• A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

  Thabo Mbeki

  Future, Islands, Sea

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• We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

  Marianne Williamson

  Needs, Earth, Principles

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid facing the plain fact: that gold, that scarce and valuable market-produced metal, has always been, and will continue to be, by far the best money for human society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Champion, Gold, Facts

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• Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

  Gus Hall

  Global Warming, Environment, Socialism

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• ...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.

  Vaclav Smil

  Running, Nature, Green Plants

  Vaclav Smil (2005). “Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties”, p.350, MIT Press

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• We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part of a system that is completely unsustainable. I see solutions to climate change leading to a much larger philosophical shift in the way human society develops. We need a new matrix to define what human progress is.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Philosophical, Progress, Development

  "Nobel peace prize winner: 'It's all about green energy'" by Rajendra K. Pachauri, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2009.

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• We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a few thousand years old, and that human technological society is mere centuries old, the nature of a community with millions or even billions of years of technological and social progress cannot even be imagined. ... What would we make of a billion-year-old technological community?

  Paul Davies

  Science, Intelligent, Years

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• The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of human society. It is not about nature or scientific ecology; it is about environmentalism, about one - recently born - dirigistic and collectivistic ideology, which goes against freedom and free markets.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Climate, Temperature, Global Warming

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• Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Growth, Spirituality

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• We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Positive, Believe, Museums

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• Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

  James Madison

  Freedom, 4th Of July, America

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.64

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• There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have paid for it with their humanity and their immortal souls.

  Dan Simmons

  Dream, Soul, Humanity

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.115, Spectra

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• The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati, as the ultimate objects of their union, are the overthrow of religion, government, and human society civil and domestic.

  Timothy Dwight IV

  Government, Unions, Ends

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• There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Having a family guarantees that you have a built in support system, and although that support system may not always be what you want it to be, when it comes down to the wire, your family will love you and stand behind you, no matter what.

  Winston Churchill

  Love You, Home, Guarantees That

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• The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the outburst of violence in human society. To save the natural world today means to save what is human in humanity.

  Raisa Gorbacheva

  Peace, Mean, Soul

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• Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

  Elizabeth Carter

  Real, Pride, Vices

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• The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone propose equality as an ideal? Every year, scholars hold Conferences on Equality and call for greater equality, and no one challenges the basic tenet. But what justification can equality find in the nature of man? If each individual is unique, how else can he be made 'equal' to others than by destroying most of what is human in him and reducing human society to the mindless uniformity of the ant heap?

  Murray Rothbard

  Unique, Men, Years

  Murray N. Rothbard (2009). “Man, Economy, and State, Scholar's Edition”, p.1309, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

  Emile Durkheim

  Science, Society, Individual

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• Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Offering, Voting

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802”

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• Anything that seriously disturbs human society is absolutely not allowed to exist.

  Li Hongzhi

  Humans

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