Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

Sonia Sotomayor

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

Theodor Adorno

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

Tim Holden

I've got a soft spot for Theatr Colwyn because my granddad used to run the Colwyn amateur dramatic society in the 1930s.

Terry Jones

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.

Tibor Kalman

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

Tim Robbins

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

Tabare Vazquez

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

William Kingdon Clifford

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

William Graham Sumner

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.

Mitch Kapor

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Mary Wollstonecraft

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Catherine Deneuve

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

Marianne Faithfull

We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.

Matt McGorry

Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?

Raquel Welch

In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

Warren Farrell

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

Keith O'Brien

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

Ted Olson

Henri Ducard: [to Bruce] Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding.

Batman Begins

The future of our society today lies in the legacy we leave behind for our children.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa