Modern society Quotes

“Modern society has subsided into a culture of deceit.”

— Steven Redhead

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

— Mark Twain

“Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.”

— Amit Kalantri

For one to succeed, another must fail

— Liam E Turner

“Modern society did not abolish slavery, but only regulated it.”

— Dario de Judicibus

“In this twenty-first century, reality is virtual and truth is broader.”

— Abhaidev

“Modern society is a biological disaster masquerading as progress.”

— Steven Magee

“Modern Society has turned blind; considering patience as cowardliness.”

— Srinivas Shenoy

CRT teaches that our modern society is fundamentally wrong and that it must be resisted.

— Michael Waltz

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking…

— Adam McKay

“in modern society, there are two types of people: those who get a good job, and those who have to get a…

— Ryan Roy

Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.

— Gordon Parker

“Our world no longer hears God because it is constantly speaking, at a devastating speed and volume, in order to say nothing.”

— Robert Sarah

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

— Susan Sontag

Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate…

— Gunter Pauli

Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society.

— David Blunkett

“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

A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the…

— Theodore Kaczynski

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word,…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all…

— Raoul Vaneigem

“I don’t think buttons should automatically release someone from suspicion of murder.” “No, I suppose not.” He sighed as if this was…

— Amanda Flower

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

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

This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for…

— Charles Bukowski

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with…

— Ezra Miller

“In the transformed world political context of today, it is more essential than ever that the critique of democracy in the name…

— Şeyla Benhabib

“Having invited these performances in the first place, the media justified covering them because they were receiving media attention... The result was…

— Neal Gabler

“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

“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

“It will certainly show what our ancestors would be thinking if they were alive today. People have often speculated about this. Would…

— Terry Pratchett

“The moderns, carrying little baggage of the kind that Shelly called "merely cultural," not even living in the traditional air, but breathing…

— Wallace Stegner

“Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by which I mean a belief in…

— Thomas Piketty

“If greed were not the master of modern man--ably assisted by envy--how could it be that the frenzy of economism does not…

— E.F. Schumacher

“Modern society is in a state of turbulence brought about, in large part, by political efforts to maintain static, equilibrium conditions; practices…

— Butler Shaffer

“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

“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

“It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Unfortunately they failed to appreciate the best part of you, preferring to lose themselves in the labyrinth of your grosser illusions. Didn't…

— Thomas Ligotti

“The belief that order must be intentionally generated and imposed upon society by institutional authorities continues to prevail. This centrally-directed model is…

— Butler Shaffer