Encouraging young people to integrate themselves with their peers, overcome prejudices, and seek out positive activities that will better not only their… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also important. It's a way to form bonds… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness.… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system… — Richard Shaull Copy Share Image
Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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
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
“Xiii- men must...find their way from false to true consciousness, from their immediate to their real interest. They can do so only… — C.Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“For years many in the oil-rich states argued that their enormous wealth would bring modernizations. They pointed to the impressive appetites of… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“A second premise behind the attitude that there is nothing to be learned about love is the assumption that the problem of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In some places, there's the concept of one religion, one truth. In the Muslim world, there's the notion of Allah. The Western,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking—what we might call “magical… — David Watson Copy Share Image
We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by which I mean a belief in… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“Humans are cognitive misers because their basic tendency is to default to Type I processing mechanisms of low computational expense. Using less… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“The great fault of modern democracy -- a fault that is common to the capitalist and the socialist -- is that it… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“If better conditions will make the poor more fit to govern themselves, why should not better conditions already make the rich more… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“It was exactly the sort of person, like Joan of Arc, who did know why women wore skirts, who was most justified… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ONE OF the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“What seems worst of all, though, is that even the leaders don't recognize this. The greatest danger of the whole mess is… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
“It's next to impossible to slip off the radar in today's world. Sometimes the world comes looking for you all guns blazing,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“For they amount to this: that if we are to produce a society of educated people, fitted to preserve their intellectual freedom… — Dorothy L. Sayers 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
Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and… — Ralph Wiley Copy Share Image
In modern society, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for men to be men. For masculinity to flourish in all its glory.… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
“When you live in a world obsessed with the speed, and consumed totally by an obsessive preoccupation with things and bloated greed.… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed… — Erich Fromm 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
Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous,… — Laurie Cabot Copy Share Image