Contemporary Quote by Umberto Eco

“In contemporary societies, by contrast, old age and infirmity have gone from being a shared, multigenerational responsibility to a more or less private state—”

— Atul Gawande

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school…

— Talcott Parsons

Today, journalists more than any other cohort of professionals, are responsible for the confusion that surrounds power and its criminality in contemporary society. As…

— Martin Walker

We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with…

— Richard J. Foster

The traditional churches are having to transition into new methodologies and new ways of reaching people and they are starting to understand that and…

— T. D. Jakes

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,…

— Anonymous

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time,…

— Peter Clewes

I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they've been left back economically or…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

— Kit Williams

Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one…

— Michael Gurian

In our contemporary society, one so over-inundated with imagery, it is easy to overlook the power of a single frame to change the way…

— Steve McCurry