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True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete. -- Malcolm X
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. -- Mason Cooley
The family is the first essential cell of human society. -- Pope John XXIII
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence. -- Peter Senge
The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society. -- George Gilder
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. -- Edmund Wilson
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society. -- James Anthony Froude
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. -- Albert Einstein
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. -- Marquis de Custine
Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. -- Hu Shih
You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. -- Frans de Waal
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. -- Jinato Hu
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers. -- Adrienne Rich
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
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
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
The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment. -- Barry Commoner
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
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
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified. -- Benjamin Tucker
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
The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity. -- Bertha von Suttner
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society. -- Jimmy Reid
There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. -- Wole Soyinka
If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that's only one side of what we do. We also trade, we intermarry, we allow each other to travel through our territory. There's an enormous amount of cooperation. -- Frans de Waal
You couldn't have human society without language. -- John Maynard Smith
I want a society free of human trafficking -- Anuradha Koirala
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. -- Ayn Rand
Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society. -- Terence McKenna
The human body is always treated as an image of society. -- Mary Douglas
What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings? -- Osamu Dazai
Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds. -- Christopher Hitchens
It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings. -- E. M. Forster
One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses. -- Louis Lecoin
Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Anything that seriously disturbs human society is absolutely not allowed to exist. -- Li Hongzhi
History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex. -- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. -- Orrin Hatch
Prosperity in a society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems. -- Eric Beinhocker
If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years. -- Albert Einstein
Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human. -- Jan Koum
FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society. -- Waris Dirie
The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society. -- William Wordsworth
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature. -- Northrop Frye
Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature. -- Theodore Schroeder
No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all. -- Ai Weiwei
When it comes to society and human consciousness, Darwinism still exists in its primal message. -- Kat Lahr
Human society needs essntially fellow-feeling and unity. When these two are present, humanness will flourish. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development. -- Harry Belafonte
Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression. -- Joseph Jarman
We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding. -- Nicolas Chamfort
There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable. -- Sam Harris
Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet. -- Victor Hugo
A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society. -- Epictetus
A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed. -- Eugene V. Debs
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts -- Seneca the Younger
A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable -- Thabo Mbeki
Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself. -- Simone Weil
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer. -- Brian Aldiss
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama -- Edward Bond
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama. -- Edward Bond
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. -- George Orwell
I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history. -- Marco Rubio
Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge. -- Vaclav Havel
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society. -- Justin Welby
Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society. -- Justin Welby
paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. -- George Orwell
The development of the society, the state and the nation is proportionate to the development of the Human -- Sathya Sai Baba
A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice. -- Ferdinand Buisson
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We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings. -- Bill Moyers
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty -- Thabo Mbeki
There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal. -- Edward Abbey
Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society. -- David Blunkett
Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human. -- Rajneesh
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. -- Muhammad Yunus
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society. -- Robert Kennedy
The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure. -- Morihei Ueshiba
The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation. -- Bruce McDonald
The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit. -- Albert J. Nock
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation. -- Thomas Aquinas
Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education. -- George Lucas
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society. -- John Galsworthy
Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan? -- Mark Twain
It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved -- Tibor R. Machan
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society. -- Aldous Huxley
The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible. -- Sunday Adelaja
If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible. -- Gus Hall
Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns. -- Tom Johnson
The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution. -- Pope Pius X
Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. -- Edward Bernays
Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. -- Lewis Thomas
There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them. -- Henry Rollins
Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have. -- Sakyong Mipham
We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence... -- Shakira
Where we find hate and darkness, may we bring love and hope, in order to give a more human face to society. -- Pope Francis
We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free. -- Joseph Stalin
Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress. -- William Feather
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away. -- Barbara Deming
In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations. -- Daisaku Ikeda
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. -- Margaret Mead
Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest. -- Matthew Shultz
The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes. -- Willa Cather
Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society. -- Koichiro Matsuura
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
The transcendent importance of love and goodwill in all human relations is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and society. -- George David Birkhoff
The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people. -- John Hume
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. -- Muhammad Yunus
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest -- Thabo Mbeki
Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress. -- Nikolay Chernyshevsky
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for. -- Helen Suzman
In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
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

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