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Human Society Quotes

Whittaker Chambers quote: "Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when..."
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies. Whittaker Chambers
Robert Anton Wilson quote: "Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose..."
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot. Robert Anton Wilson
Human society is ninety percent muck that won't disperse to the appropriate location that’s why I chose the profession of plumber. Rose Tremain
Jared Diamond quote: "Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting..."
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. Jared Diamond
Mason Cooley quote: "Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into..."
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. Mason Cooley
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
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny. Michael Novak
Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get... Stephen King
For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference. Jared Diamond
Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. Aristotle
The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society. Claudio Hummes
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally. Christian Lous Lange
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth. Mortimer Adler
The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity. George Orwell
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. Salman Rushdie

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