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.
quote by Mortimer Adler
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
quote by Michael Novak
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.
quote by Jared Diamond
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
In general, human societies are not innovative. They are hierarchical and ritualistic. Suggestions for change are greeted with suspicion; they imply an unpleasant future variation in ritual and hierarchy; an exchange of one set of rituals for another, or perhaps for a less structured society with fewer rituals. And yet there are times when societies must change.
Carl Sagan in Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Submitted by Catalin Popescu
Vote! | Copy! | In Romanian
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
quote by Natan Sharansky
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
quote by Lawrence Lessig
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
quote by Natan Sharansky
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Neither you nor I
Cows breed more, deer breed more and hares breed more;
They must breed more for forests want them more.
They must feed lions, tigers and foxes
With their casualties in multitudes.
The poor breed more and the lowly breed more;
They must breed more for societies want them more
They must serve the rich, masters and leaders
With their casualties in multitudes.
Between the forests and the societies,
The difference is: forests gave no saints
Whereas the societies gave saints in chain.
No change in societies as in forests..
Who is the planer? Who can defeat him?
Who is the keeper? Who can control him?
Who is the owner? Who can approach him?
Neither you nor I can reform the world.
15.07.2008
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Yes, I have cherished my "demagogue" role. I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having bought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is maligant in the body of America - then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine.
Malcolm X in The Autobiograghy of Malcom X (1964)
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
quote by Natan Sharansky
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Nature Impacted Civilizations
progress is not linear
everything is not
based on all known before
quantum leaps
eureka moments
spice scientific
discoveries
wave oscillations
sine waves
pendulum sways
periodic motions
propagate changes
equilibrium vibration
earth violent quakes
balances tectonic plates
physical systems
biological systems
human societies
civilizations empires
expand contract
rise fall cyclic changes
poem by Terence George Craddock
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.
quote by Pauline Hanson
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Dr. Reich vastly offended many people by his sociological theory, which holds that fascism is just an exaggerated form of the basic structure of sex-negative societies and has existed under other names in every civilization based on sexual repression. In this theory, the character and muscular armor of the average citizen — a submissive and frightened attitude anchored in body reflexes — causes the average person to want a strong authority figure above them. Tyranny, in this model, is not created by tyrants alone but by neurotic masses who want tyrants.
quote by Robert Anton Wilson
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
quote by Prince Charles
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.
quote by Jared Diamond
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
quote by Whittaker Chambers
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
quote by Ferdinand Lassalle
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Music Is Breath Of Life For Life Artists
those in music for the long haul
are chime web symphony enchanted
because music is an inseparable
part of their intrinsic soul giving being
music is a timeless passion when you feel
reference kiwi artists Tim Finn, Dave Dobbyn
music is breath of life for life artists
music is timeless music which addresses
scale entrapment felt human conditions...
who we are where we are our societies
perceptions of our societies our realities
thinking mind does not outgrow curiosities
interactive sing gifted perceptions
music transforms through generations
insight life quickened mind survives
gift love artistically giving survives
survives immortal ravage time tests
music is breath of life for life artists...
poem by Terence George Craddock
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
quote by Walter Lippmann
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
quote by Jared Diamond
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Childhood Days
Childhood days! !
Beautiful childhood days.
No hurries, no worries
Like pure delightful bays
We sat with dad
With mom on our side
Playing and shouting
With full our might.
All our wants and all our wishes
May be from toy train to chocolate pieces
Were granted us with some good kisses
all the toys and all the choices
shouting on the top of our voices
The tricky studies with playful schools
Cracking silly jokes like a fool.
Alas! now everything has gone
With nothing so cool..
Burdened with load of task
Bearing our hobbies under work's mask
we lay aside for societies societies cruelty
Someone give us back our childhood days
And freed us from this life's routine maze...
poem by Divya Agarwal
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!