Quotes of: Human-society Keyword

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the m...

Terry Eagleton

I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a ri...

Ernestine Rose

Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first hu...

David Novak

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

Kamisese Mara

Sports are a microcosm of society.

Billie Jean King

We live in a kissy society.

Michael Bergin

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

Naomi Wolf

Music is always a commentary on society.

Frank Zappa

Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to justify treating them fairly. ... By invoking this assumption [i.e., that they were/are better environmen...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

The bold code of the transhumanist will rise. That's an inevitable, undeniable fact. It's embedded in the undemocratic nature of technology and our own teleological evolutionary advancment. It is the future. We are the future like it or not. And it n...

The Transhumanist Wager

You see that girl over there? The one being picked on? Do you know whose fault it is that she's being picked on? Society. Just because she doesn't look and dress a certain way makes her different. Like how dare she be different?! No, how dare you pic...

Anonymous

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

Carroll Quigley

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

Ivan Chermayeff

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself.

Marx quoted by John Fowles

Accepted that we all are human resources, but we are humans first and resources later.

Rutvik Oza

In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.

William A. Dembski

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

Hanns Eisler

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

Peter Singer

In Actual Human Rights are "caring" for Humans left on the planet

Haider Ali

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Clancy Brown

With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

Steven Pinker