“Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the preaching of dour labourists, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with a bit of laziness. Great philosophers through the ages… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills,… — Eric Hoffer 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
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
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
Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
“In order to progress, modern society should be treating ruined entrepreneurs in the same way we honor dead soldiers, perhaps not with… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“We live in a modern society. Husbands and wives don't grow on trees, like in the old days. So where does one… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“It seems that every time President Trumps government undoes an environmental regulation that the stock market goes to record highs. Another way… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. The mere minimum of the Church would… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“In any modern society encouraging your child to cut himself is an unthinkable act, but only with religious belief becomes part of… — Sean S Kamali 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
“Modern society has sent men on a quest that is perhaps an inquiry just as thought-provoking as the popular question: what is… — Cage J. Madison Copy Share Image
“When “fundamentalism” takes root within a religious movement, emphasis shifts away from love of God and love of neighbor in order to… — Aaron Milavec Copy Share Image
The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created… — Stewart Udall 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
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“The Devil didn't pull a trick. He didn't hide. He just put on a Brooks Brothers suit and convinced a generation of… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
That decision to use basically all white models, reveals a trait that is unbecoming to modern society. It can no longer be… — Bethann Hardison Copy Share Image
“That hundreds of millions of people believe that a man named Noah built an ark and put all of the world's species… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“The moderns, carrying little baggage of the kind that Shelly called "merely cultural," not even living in the traditional air, but breathing… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
