Best Modern Society Quotations
93 Modern Society quotes by 83 unique authors
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Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction…
— Theodore Kaczynski
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What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under…
— Charles Taylor
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Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion,…
— Nhat Hanh
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Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
— Clay Shirky
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The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said,…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what we consider to…
— Jon Richardson
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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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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a…
— Ursula Burns
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The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.
— Raymond Loewy
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Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society.
— David Blunkett
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I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I…
— Michelangelo Antonioni
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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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My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society from people who have so…
— Dennis Prager
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defences, or the problems of modern society.
— Vince Lombardi
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Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.
— Pope John Paul II
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For one to succeed, another must fail
— Liam E Turner
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