Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Mason Cooley

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Joe Biden

Karma literally means “deed” or “act” and more broadly names the universal principle of cause and effect, action and reaction which governs all life. Karma is a natural law of the mind, just as gravity is a law of matter.

Dancing With Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism: An illustrated sourcebook, timeline and lexicon exploring how to know the Divine, honor all creation and see God everywhere, in everyone

The spoken word has come to dominate many Protestant forms of worship: the words of prayers, responsive readings, Scripture, the sermon, and so forth. Yet the spoken word is perhaps the least effective way of reaching the heart; one must constantly p...

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

In a number of workshops, I have asked people whether they have had one or more experiences that they would identify as an experience of God and, if so, to share them in small groups. On average, 80 percent of the participants identify one or more an...

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, government negatively by restraining our vices. Society encourages intercourse. Government creates distinctions.

Common Sense

the Ankh-Morpork Trespassers' Society was originally the Explorers' Society until Lord Vetinari forcibly insisted that most of the places 'discovered' by the society's members already had people in them, who were already trying to sell snakes to the ...

Unseen Academicals

In one aspect, my works record the history of the development of Chinese society. Concern about the situation of Chinese reality is one important theme of my works. I am trying to ask, 'How does our society develop? What are the problems in our socie...

Liu Bolin

I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith...

Carlos Fuentes

Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands.

Sonam Kapoor

Hope is the most evil of all emotions

The Society of Sinners

But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.

Alphonso Jackson

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

Alan Greenspan

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

A. J. Liebling

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

Greg Boyle

You either have a civil society or you don't.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

Mark Skousen

We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.

Nolan Bushnell

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Yoshihiko Noda

Become a player in the orchestra of human society.

Yonason Goldson