Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

Mitt Romney

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

Noam Chomsky

The biggest challenge for cyborgs is to be socially accepted. Society needs to accept that there are people who wish to use technology as part of the body.

Neil Harbisson

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

Nelson Mandela

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Niccolo Machiavelli

In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.

Najib Razak

Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.

Paul Hawken

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

Paul Ryan

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

Paul Singer

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Roland Barthes

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Robertson Davies

The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.

Roy Hattersley

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

Ron Kind

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

Russell Simmons

You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.

Susanne Bier

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Shirley Chisholm

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

Steve Earle

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.

Steven Levy

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

Samantha Morton

Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.

Srikumar Rao

I have exercises that lead participants to discover for themselves that their deepest fulfillment comes when what they're doing is of benefit to larger society in some way. This really knocks some for a loop - especially those schooled in the 'take n...

Srikumar Rao