Quotes About Society

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ. It is a crime against humanity.

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.

Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.

It is your human environment that makes climate

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity.

Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.

Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.

Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.

One of the greatest problems of humanity is how to live in a multi religious society without losing one's religion - without relativising everything.