In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling. — Eric Hoffer 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
“Guilt is born in the same hour with pleasure, like anything in this universe and its enemy.” — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Modern society must show courage and willingness to replace common superstitions with common sense.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.” — Amit Kalantri 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
“Religion in modern society is only artificially kept together and upheld by the Church and by those Governments to whose social or… — Ármin Vámbéry 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
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
I dream of Poland becoming a modern society that is defined not by the crippling nature of history, but by our individual… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and… — Raymond Geuss 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
By 1975 - and continuing to today - all Americans came to believe that they had a "right" to a safe, clean,… — Denis Hayes 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
How to become a really modern society when today we are so - as a human being, we feel so powerful. We… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Exposed! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit… — Jeremy Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
“Whatever may be the cause of this crisis, it is certain that it is a spiritual one, since it represents the failure… — Christopher Henry Dawson 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
“Late modern society is principally concerned with purchasing things, in ever greater abundance and variety, and so has to strive to fabricate… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Moral sense is almost completely ignored by modern society. We have, in fact, suppressed its manifestations. All are imbued with irresponsibility. Those… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
“The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could… — Thomas Hylland Eriksen Copy Share Image
“The whole tendency of modern life is towards scientific planning and organisation, central control, standardisation, and specialisation. If this tendency was left… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“We tend to be unaware that stars rise and set at all. This is not entirely due to our living in cities… — Robert K.G. Temple Copy Share Image
“Calling resists privatization by insisting on the totality of faith. Calling resists politicization by demanding a tension with every human allegiance and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere. — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
“With a bored pride; in their own hands a shallow mindless electronic device - it is without doubt - a damning indictment… — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“Food intolerance is in the process of turning into a plague in modern society.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
