Quotes of: Human-society Keyword

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Henry David Thoreau

Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes, and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.

John Sentamu

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

Leah Ward Sears

What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.

Anne Holt

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Denis Diderot

Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

Martin Yan

Society is full of possibilities, is this possible to make all to think like children then there will be no politics.

Vikram Roy

I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.

Samina Baig

Foreword: Life is tension or the result of tension: without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as the result of tension between the two polarities night and day, night, the negative pole, must share equal importance wit...

Sleep Has His House

So often, children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes, yet we adults have them all the time! We think if we don't nip it in the bud, it will escalate and we wil...

The Newbie's Guide to Positive Parenting

Humans have evolved levels of cooperation that are unprecedented among primate species. You can see it even in babies. Say you are playing with a baby and begin to put the toys in a box. If you point to one of the toys, the baby is likely to put it i...

The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World

Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives it as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is somewhat less than 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Even allowing that th...

The Last Hero

Simple answers to the most difficult questions: 1. Why do humans find it difficult to express themselves? To relate to the movies and books, later. 2. Why do humans make everything look so big, beautiful & complicated? Ego feels good. 3. Why do human...

Saurabh Sharma

If you want to go up in the world, veil ambition with the forms of humanity.

Chinese

You call me the unhuman," it might say to him, "and so I really am—for you; but I am so only because you bring me into opposition to the human, and I could despise myself only so long as I let myself be hypnotized into this opposition. I was contem...

The Ego and Its Own

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.

Cronenberg on Cronenberg

Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being.

The China Garden

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Choke

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.

Climats

The human body is the most ordinary of things, yet also the most extraordinary.

Co-ed Naked Philosophy

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Carrie