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“There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.”

Way Humans Reason Whole Community Fiction Teach Benefits Be Good Reason Why Behave Human Society

Author:Orson Scott Card

“The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.”

Humans Culture Differences Human Beings Crucial Human Society

Author:Ruth Benedict

“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 Should Humans Interest Benefits Highest Conscience Obligation Human Society Public Interest

Book:The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow

Source: The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow

“The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the development of civilization, but such leaders appear sporadically, by chance. They do not always appear when they are most needed. The great executives have given inspiration and push to the advancement of human society, but it is the legislator who has given stability and continuity to that slow and painful progress.”

“Whoever hesitates while waiting for ideas to triumph among the masses before initiating revolutionary action will never be a revolutionary... Humanity will, of course, change; human society will, of course, continue to develop - in spite of men and the errors of men. But that is not a revolutionary attitude.”

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Author:Fidel Castro

“Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.”

Humans Dies Human Beings Live By Human Society

Book:Witness

Source: Witness

“Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.”

People Humans Concern Chiefs Chinese Human Society Confucianism

Author:Hu Shih

“The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.”

Humans Doe Political Order Church Exercise Active Human Society Political Power

Author:Claudio Hummes

“I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Years Humans Matter Young Groups Dangerous Acceptance Honor Young Man Survived Human Society Small Groups

Author:Sebastian Junger