Human Society Quotes - Page 7

• Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

  Hu Jintao

  Keys, Diversity, World

  Hu Jintao's Speech to Federal Parliament, www.smh.com.au. October 24, 2003.

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• One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

  Louis Lecoin

  Peace, War, Doe

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• You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Mean, Important

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• We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly and proudly...when our lives are suppressed, everyone is denied an understanding of the rich diversity of sex and gender expression and experience that exist in human society.

  Leslie Feinberg

  Sex, Expression, Order

  Leslie Feinberg (1996). “Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Civilization, Division Of Labor, Culture

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.120, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.

  Pope John XXIII

  Catholic, Church, Noble

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• Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Political, Social, Certain

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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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• There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

  Orson Scott Card

  Community, Fiction, Benefits

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• The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

  Ruth Benedict

  Differences, Culture, Humans

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• Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

  H. G. Wells

  Dream, Clouds, Land

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• The police become necessary in human society
  Only at that junction in human society
  Where it is split between those who have and those who ain’t got

  Omali Yeshitela

  Police, Splits, Junction

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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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

  Isaac Barrow

  Men, Benefits, Should

  Isaac Barrow (1818). “The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow”, p.45

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• The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the development of civilization, but such leaders appear sporadically, by chance. They do not always appear when they are most needed. The great executives have given inspiration and push to the advancement of human society, but it is the legislator who has given stability and continuity to that slow and painful progress.

  J. William Fulbright

  Powerful, Inspiration, Civilization

  "The Legislator". Lecture delivered at the University of Chicago; in "The Works of the Mind" by Robert B. Heywood, edition for the University's Committee on Social Thought (1947), p. 119, 1946.

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• Whoever hesitates while waiting for ideas to triumph among the masses before initiating revolutionary action will never be a revolutionary... Humanity will, of course, change; human society will, of course, continue to develop - in spite of men and the errors of men. But that is not a revolutionary attitude.

  Fidel Castro

  Attitude, Men, Errors

  Fidel Castro's speech at the closing of the first conference of OLAS in Havana’s Chaplin Theater, www.marxists.org. August 10, 1967.

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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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