Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies.

Julia Bacha

When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy.

Debasish Mridha

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

Emil Cioran

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

Brad Holland

Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.

John Stuart Mill

The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.

David Brooks

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Don DeLillo

One woman's definition of success may not be another's. Is success, as the world defines it, an accomplishment in a society this sick?

Donna Lynn Hope

Always write to change society for the better. You will go, but it will live as a treasure forever.

Debasish Mridha

Always write to change society for the better. You will go, but it will live forever as a treasure.

Debasish Mridha

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

Louis Althusser

Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

Jay Griffiths

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

Brad Holland

John Keating: We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you.

Dead Poets Society

Neil: If I don't ask him, at least I won't be disobeying him.

Dead Poets Society

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

LL Cool J

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

John Adams

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

James Hillman

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Michel Foucault

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

Marya Mannes

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

Timothy Radcliffe