“Modern society did not abolish slavery, but only regulated it.” — Dario de Judicibus Copy Share Image
“Modern Society has turned blind; considering patience as cowardliness.” — Srinivas Shenoy Copy Share Image
You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The noise and bustle nowadays made you blind and deaf and deadened all sensation.” — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Smart shaming affects society at large by advertising mediocrity, villainizing the intelligent, and idolizing the foolish.” — E. Ravago Copy Share Image
“Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
People think that human beings have gotten worse, that because of the pressures that modern society puts on us, we've gotten worse,… — Thomas Gibson Copy Share Image
“We the people, the 99% don’t fit in the Hierarchy of Modern Society; the 1 % is not an expanding entity like… — Nynke Visser Copy Share Image
“With approximately 50% of the USA population on prescription drugs and 10% on anti-depressants, it is clear that things are going seriously… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The practical common-sense of modern society, the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion, take, is the natural genius of the British… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society. — Alexander Stille Copy Share Image
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Modern society has created a giant apparatus for the cultivation of the hard skills, while failing to develop the moral and emotional… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Most people understand that sexual lust has to do with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
By 1975 - and continuing to today - all Americans came to believe that they had a "right" to a safe, clean,… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
How to become a really modern society when today we are so - as a human being, we feel so powerful. We… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Whatever may be the cause of this crisis, it is certain that it is a spiritual one, since it represents the failure… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“It’s sometimes argued that there’s no real progress; that a civilization that kills multitudes in mass warfare, that pollutes the land and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Late modern society is principally concerned with purchasing things, in ever greater abundance and variety, and so has to strive to fabricate… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Moral sense is almost completely ignored by modern society. We have, in fact, suppressed its manifestations. All are imbued with irresponsibility. Those… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
“Modern society is incredibly complex, complex even beyond human comprehension, if we grant its premises—property, "production for the sake of production," competition,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could… — Thomas Hylland Eriksen Copy Share Image
“We tend to be unaware that stars rise and set at all. This is not entirely due to our living in cities… — Robert K.G. Temple Copy Share Image
