Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube. — Ed Rollins Copy Share Image
“At the same time that we see a massive deployment of wireless radiation, we see the most violent attacks on modern society.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Too sick to work and not sick enough to die is common in modern society.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes. — William Hague Copy Share Image
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[D]espite the patina of civility coating most of modern society, underneath it is a thick layer of savagery.” — Gene Doucette Copy Share Image
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
“I am suggesting that, for too many individuals in modern society, there is a feeling of being dominated, and that feelings of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If abortion was about women's rights, then why is it so profitable? In my eyes, abortion is the most well-known example of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are three things healthy people most need to do - to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
“Life goes on in the same manner, evil wins and peace is slaughtered. Change the channel, change the view, tired of the… — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Modern society seems to be a celebration of all the things that lead away from the Truth, make Truth hard to live… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“It was all very well being a modern society, but the advent of prosperity and the growth of the towns was a… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment.… — Eustace Conway Copy Share Image
I want viewers want to talk about The Conquest. I want the dialogue to start after the movie. The cinema is there… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
“The economic and marketing forces of modern society have engineered an environment… that maximize[s] consumption at the long-term cost of well-being,” a… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“no doubt, the early traumatic shocks that young hardy brown experienced had a permanent impact on his future development and capacity to… — Jim Dent Copy Share Image
“The whole tendency of modern life is towards scientific planning and organisation, central control, standardisation, and specialisation. If this tendency was left… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“We have made money our god and called it the good life. We have trained our children to go for jobs hat… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“[There is] no direct relationship between IQ and economic opportunity. In the supposed interests of fairness and “social justice”, the natural relationship… — Christopher Langan Copy Share Image
“Calling resists privatization by insisting on the totality of faith. Calling resists politicization by demanding a tension with every human allegiance and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“...the PRC's stringent population control program has divided children into two opposing categories based on their perceived level of 'quality.' Although urban… — Leslie K. Wang Copy Share Image
“[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Indeed, they embraced a tradition that was notorious for its incompatibility with American law and liberty. The connection between absolute and administrative… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
“Humankind has accumulated generation upon generation of knowledge, the culmination of which is the vast and useful technological array we see everywhere… — H.E. Davey Copy Share Image
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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