“[D]espite the patina of civility coating most of modern society, underneath it is a thick layer of savagery.” — Gene Doucette Copy Share Image
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society. — Anonymous 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
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
Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. — Anonymous 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
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
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
Clearly it's not easy for woman in modern society, no matter where we live. We still have to go extra mile to… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
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
If you are a human being in modern society on planet Earth, you need money to do pretty much everything, especially to… — Jen Sincero 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
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
Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The economic and marketing forces of modern society have engineered an environment… that maximize[s] consumption at the long-term cost of well-being,” a… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression,… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“no doubt, the early traumatic shocks that young hardy brown experienced had a permanent impact on his future development and capacity to… — Jim Dent Copy Share Image
Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
There are many strengths in modern society, but one of its weaknesses is the breakdown of many of the old structures and… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
Most people understand that sexual lust has to do with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Modern society has created a giant apparatus for the cultivation of the hard skills, while failing to develop the moral and emotional… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“From our first day alive on this planet, they began teaching society everything it knows and experiences. It was all brainwashing bullshit.… — Zoltan Istvan 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
“But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism? Poor human nature, what horrible… — Emma Goldman 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
“Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit of the law. Law… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“If one looks at modern society, it is obvious that in order to live, the great majority of people are forced to… — Gilles Dauvé 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
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“The noise and bustle nowadays made you blind and deaf and deadened all sensation.” — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Smart shaming affects society at large by advertising mediocrity, villainizing the intelligent, and idolizing the foolish.” — E. Ravago Copy Share Image
“At the same time that we see a massive deployment of wireless radiation, we see the most violent attacks on modern society.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube. — Ed Rollins Copy Share Image
The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts. — Hal Boyle Copy Share Image
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