Human Society Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Live By, Humans, Dies

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.4, Regnery Publishing

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• It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.

  Raymond B. Fosdick

  Keys, Different, Minorities

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• Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

  William Feather

  Change, Progress, Habit

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• Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm; and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.

  James Joyce

  Men, Artist, Law

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.2129, e-artnow

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• Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Views, Society, Citizens

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.223, University of Georgia Press

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• Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Art, Men, Law

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Struggle, Civilization, Age

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• Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

  Simone Weil

  Moving, Roots, Uprooting

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• The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Raw Materials, Social, Institutions

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• Scary rock n' roll bands had all the devilish imagery. But at the same time, it's not because they were devil worshippers, they were saying that society is run by devils. It was human society that created these things, they become the devils. This is what you worship. This money is what you worship. This idea is what you worship.

  Immortal Technique

  Running, Rocks, Ideas

  Source: readersupportednews.org

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• You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. Of course, I'm not saying that you can derive moral rules from nature - that's deriving an ought from an is, as the philosophers say - but you do need to know what kind of animals we are if you want to design a stable society.

  Frans de Waal

  Animal, Hands, Design

  "Frans de Waal on Political Apes, Science Communication, and Building a Cooperative Society". Interview with Eric Michael Johnson, blogs.scientificamerican.com. July 11, 2011.

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• The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

  Sybille Bedford

  Errors, Society, Compass

  Sybille Bedford (2017). “A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error”, p.280, New York Review of Books

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• Nature is indeed a specious ward, nay, there is a great deal in it if it is properly understood and applied, but I cannot bear to hear people using it to justify what common sense must disavow. Is not Nature modifed by art in many things? Was it not designed to be so? And is it not happy for human society that it is so? Would you like to see your husband let his beard grow, until he would be obliged to put the end of it in his pocket, because this beard is the gift of Nature?

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Art, Nature, Husband

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• Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.

  Alexander Zinoviev

  Party, Law, People

  "Gorbachevism" by Alexander Zinoviev, 4th article, 1988.

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• I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wisdom, Men, Justice

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• Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

  Sissela Bok

  Truth, Principles, Essentials

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.55, Vintage

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• In the present state of human society, however, We deem it advisable that the wage-contract should, when possible, be modified somewhat by a contract of partnership, as is already being tried in various ways to the no small gain both of the wage-earners and of the employers. In this way wage-earners are made sharers in some sort in the ownership, or the management, or the profits.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Politics, Way

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• Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

  Theodore Schroeder

  Atheism, Influence, Humans

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• If you want to design a successful human society you need to know what kind of animal we are. Are we a social animal or a selfish animal? Do we respond better when we're solitary or living in a group?

  Frans de Waal

  Selfish, Successful, Animal

  "Frans de Waal on Political Apes, Science Communication, and Building a Cooperative Society". Interview with Eric Michael Johnson, blogs.scientificamerican.com. July 11, 2011.

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