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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… — 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… — John Blacking
- If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological… — 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… — Arnold Beichman
- The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Robert Winston
- We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost… — 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… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn