“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
The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes. — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it… — Philip Yancey 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 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
“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
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
This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for… — Charles Bukowski 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
“People have often speculated about this. Would they approve of modern society, they ask, would they marvel at present-day achievements? And of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark… — Kofi Annan 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
“It will certainly show what our ancestors would be thinking if they were alive today. People have often speculated about this. Would… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“Modern society is modern because of its mental cocktail of reasoning and compassion. Turn the compassion network in the brain off, and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere;… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host… — Will Herberg Copy Share Image
In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society. — Gordon Parker Copy Share Image
“A confidential report delivered in June 1965 by Abel Aganbegyan, director of the Novobirsk Institute of Economics, highlighted the difficulties. Aganbegyan noted… — Geoffrey Hosking Copy Share Image
“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries abandoned the idea of spiritual or intellectual happiness in order to have this material happiness, consisting of… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
