Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Ruben Blades

A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

Paul Fussell

I guess I've always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them.

Sasha Grey

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

Samuel Johnson

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

Lord Robertson

A big hole in a poor child’s shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

Mehmet Murat ildan

Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Omens don't influence the eradication of a evil from a society. it's all upto you when YOU want.

M.H. Rakib

Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy.

Debasish Mridha

To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.

Marina Abramovic

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

John Ralston Saul

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

In families you can find the source of every human drama. It is interesting because the cell of a society, the cell of a country, the cell of humanity - everything lies in the family.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

Quincy Jones

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

Michael Sheen

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

Barney Oliver

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

Jim DeMint

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

Michael Newdow

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

Vladimir Putin