Contemporary Society Quotes

14 Contemporary Society quotes by 14 unique authors

• 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
• Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 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
• 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
• The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. — Kit Williams
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 1 Contemporary Society Quote by Talcott Parsons
• 1 Contemporary Society Quote by Ross Macdonald
• 1 Contemporary Society Quote by Robert Winston
• 1 Contemporary Society Quote by Richard J. Foster
• 1 Contemporary Society Quote by Pope Francis
• 1 Contemporary Society Quote by Michael Gurian
• 1 Contemporary Society Quote by Kit Williams
• 1 Contemporary Society Quote by John Blacking
• 1 Contemporary Society Quote by Jean-Francois Lyotard
• 1 Contemporary Society Quote by Guy Cook
• 1 Contemporary Society Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 1 Contemporary Society Quote by C L R James
• 1 Contemporary Society Quote by Arnold Beichman
• 1 Contemporary Society Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn