Contemporary Society Quotes
14 Contemporary Society quotes by 14 unique authors
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In contemporary society, advertising is everywhere. We cannot walk down the street, shop, watch television, go through our mail, log on to the Internet, read…
— Guy Cook
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Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem…
— John Blacking
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If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply…
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
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The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
— Kit Williams
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One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the scriptures…
— Arnold Beichman
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the…
— C L R James
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Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ...It is a crime against humanity.
— Pope Francis
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I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and…
— Ross Macdonald
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We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society…
— Robert Winston
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We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality.…
— Richard J. Foster
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Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of…
— Talcott Parsons
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Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person.…
— Michael Gurian
Who Wrote These Contemporary Society Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Contemporary Society Quotes as follows: