One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran… — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
In our contemporary society, one so over-inundated with imagery, it is easy to overlook the power of a single frame to change… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they've been left back… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our… — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The traditional churches are having to transition into new methodologies and new ways of reaching people and they are starting to understand… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Today, journalists more than any other cohort of professionals, are responsible for the confusion that surrounds power and its criminality in contemporary… — Martin Walker Copy Share Image
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before - which means that the scope of society's… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . .… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore… — John Green Copy Share Image
Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ...It is a crime… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history. — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
... while in theory digital technology entails the flawless replication of data, its actual use in contemporary society is characterized by the… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though… — John Blacking Copy Share Image