I think many people have this sense that something about modern society - the screens, the noise, the traffic, the constant busyness… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
There are several factors in modern society that contribute to loneliness. One is that we are more mobile than we have been… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word,… — Daniel Radcliffe 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
“The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“Psychologists have known for some time that rewarding desirable responses is generally more effective in shaping behavior than punishing undesirable responses.19 However,… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“God’s Kingdom is not built on the profit motive. The world’s favorite verb is get. The verb of the Christian is give.… — Billy Graham 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
Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“When society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
“That hundreds of millions of people believe that a man named Noah built an ark and put all of the world's species… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
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“First agriculture, and then industry, changed two fundamental things about the human experience. The accumulation of personal property allowed people to make… — Sebastian Junger 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
“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
In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities… — Michael Kenny Copy Share Image
Communism is something that comes from the classics of Marxism that talked of a modern society we should aspire to. One that… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“...it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about… — Simon Kuper Copy Share Image
We're living at a time when people are questioning what it means to be male in modern society, and I'm finding it… — Josh O'Connor Copy Share Image
The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the… — Marina Abramovic 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
There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I only noticed this after I had finished the film 'The Bad Batch,' and watched it again a few months later... Arlen,… — Ana Lily Amirpour Copy Share Image
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness,… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society,… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
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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
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
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