Quotes of: Human-society Keyword

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

Malcolm X

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

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

Evelyn Glennie

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 societi...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

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

When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum…for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expressi...

FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

Vidal Sassoon

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

In families you can find the source of every human drama. It is interesting because the cell of a society, the cell of a country, the cell of humanity - everything lies in the family.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

Marco Rubio

Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.

John Stuart Mill

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

Paul Berg

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

Bill Moyers

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

Edward Bond

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

George Orwell

The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.

The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society

To be human is, primarily, to embrace that we are human with strengths and weaknesses, and that our humanity is preordained to seek the Truth, Good and Beauty as part of our humanity. To be human is to be an agent of peace, justice, and reconciliatio...

Danny Castillones Sillada

Just as we have created a society in which it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette in the Kennedy Center lobby, we can create a society where it is unthinkable that a child suffers abuse, fails in school, becomes delinquent, or faces teasing ...

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

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

Tony Kushner

Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dign...

Dean Smith