Best Modern Society Sayings
93 Modern Society quotes by 83 unique authors
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
— Boris Pasternak
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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.
— Roger Wolcott Sperry
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Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no…
— Carl Rogers
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Exposed! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit and paranoid power.…
— Jeremy Robert Johnson
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Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world…
— Pope John Paul II
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Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear…
— Honore de Balzac
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Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis…
— Vladimir Lenin
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There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers,…
— Katerina Graham
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But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has…
— Stephen Covey
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Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a…
— Henry Van Dyke
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Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.
— Clint Eastwood
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I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
— William Hague
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I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous…
— Richard Lamm
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
— Vince Lombardi
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Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of…
— Ezra Miller
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Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.
— Daniel Radcliffe
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
— Simone Weil
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Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too…
— A.C. Grayling
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This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're…
— Charles Bukowski
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Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people…
— Charles Bukowski
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Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He…
— Erich Fromm
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