Best Modern Society Quotes
93 Modern Society quotes by 83 unique authors
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Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards…
— Eric Hoffer
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People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.
— Greg Graffin
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Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
— Ahmet Necdet Sezner
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The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.
— Alan Dershowitz
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Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate…
— Laurie Cabot
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Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
— Nirmalananda
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What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society, the inability to…
— Jon Foreman
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Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and…
— Kofi Annan
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Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its…
— Jacques Monod
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The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These few will greatly…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.
— Eric Hoffer
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Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and…
— Kofi Annan
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That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no…
— E F Schumacher
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Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
— Neel Burton
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The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where…
— Friedrich Engels
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The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and constitutional liberty.... Perhaps…
— Clinton Rossiter
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For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this…
— Roland Barthes
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Clearly it's not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go the extra mile to prove that…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But yoga demands that…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human…
— Mark Twain
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I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
— Wilkie Collins
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One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together…
— Alexander McCall Smith
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I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the curriculum in Trend…
— Dave Barry
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