Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

Street culture is a culture of containment. Most young people do not realize that it all too often leads to a “dead end”. “Street culture,” as I am using the term, is a counterforce to movement culture. Street culture in contemporary urban re...

Haki R. Madhubuti

Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast to a genre of commodity or a section in a bookstore, by breaking it. Michael Moorcock revived fantasy by prying it...

Michael Cisco

It's so funny being a Christian musician. It always scares me when people think so highly of Christian music, Contemporary Christian music especially. Because I kinda go, I know a lot of us, and we don't know jack about anything. Not that I don't wan...

Rich Mullins

Now, as it happens, theology is actually a pitilessly demanding discipline concerning an immense, profoundly sophisticated legacy of hermeneutics, dialectics, and logic; it deals in minute detail with a vast variety of concrete historical data; over ...

David Bentley Hart

Most people seem to resent the controversial in music; they don't want their listening habits disturbed. They use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant...

Aaron Copland

The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.

Crossed

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.

The Crimson Petal and the White

The society of girls is a very delightful thing, Copperfield. It's not professional, but it's very delightful.

David Copperfield

That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Dead Poets Society

You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears.

Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History

She was damaged because she had no one, and he was damaged because neither did he.

The Guardian Society

I didn't want to raise my kids in this weird, sycophantic society. If you have celebrity parents, it's not a good recipe for the kids, or anyone at any age.

Robin Wright

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Claude Levi-Strauss

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

Geoffrey Fisher

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Maria Mitchell

I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those '60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.

Edie Campbell

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.

Brad Holland

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

Michel Foucault

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Victor Hugo

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

Yayoi Kusama

When we change the way we communicate, we change society

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations