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  • We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing about human nature. If you look at human societies and human interactions, you can find anything. You find selfishness, you find altruism, you find sympathy.

    Source: pennpoliticalreview.org
  • The literary game is the abyss of human society itself: interactive, playful and tragic. We can't live alone. For me, Robinson [Crusoe] is either a false myth or else he represents the denial of human society. We can't play by ourselves. In literature, it's even more complicated, because one has to play with an indeterminate number of players simultaneously and every game is different. The other player can abandon your game at any time...to go play chess.

    Player   Games   Numbers  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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 (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.106, Rajpal & Sons
  • Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.64
  • The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

    Edmund Wilson (2007). “Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s”
  • The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

    Book   Men   Evil  
  • If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a place of war and violence, a place of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends.

    Dream   Religious   War  
  • Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.

    Country   Powerful   Land  
    Raymond Williams (1975). “The Country and the City”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

  • If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

    Peace   War   Being Real  
  • The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.

    Space   Special   Doe  
  • Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

    Men   Benefits   Should  
    Isaac Barrow (1818). “The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow”, p.45
  • Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do. There is an old expression that says, 'Misery likes company,' and people who are suffering in hell don't want to be all alone.

  • 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 back home.

    Home   Men   Opposites  
    Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.569, Anchor
  • Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

    Museums   Doe   Poverty  
    Twitter post from Jan 30, 2012
  • Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.

    Passion   Men   Deception  
    Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.35, Simon and Schuster
  • The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.

    Land   Pioneers   Littles  
    Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.68, Simon and Schuster
  • I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.

    Believe   Mind   Age  
  • The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

  • The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it

    Wise   Men   Might  
    Adam Smith (1817). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages”, p.379
  • The greatest and noblest pleasure we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices... A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

    Truth   Men   Prejudice  
  • Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

    Children   Business   Men  
    Getting Married (1911) preface "The Personal Sentimental Basis of Monogamy"
  • All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

  • We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

  • Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

    Real   Pride   Vices  
  • Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

    John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811”, p.501, Jazzybee Verlag
  • There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature - and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away. Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That’s one big horror story. And it’s the most popular book on the planet.

    "Bentley Little: The Elusive Dark Scribe Speaks". Interview with Vince A. Liaguno, www.darkscribemagazine.com. September 13, 2007.
  • There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Having a family guarantees that you have a built in support system, and although that support system may not always be what you want it to be, when it comes down to the wire, your family will love you and stand behind you, no matter what.

  • Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them.

  • History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

    Past   History   Events  
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