Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.

John Naisbitt

EVERYTIME A GIRL WISHES TO BE A BOY BADLY, IT'S A SIGNAL THAT OUT SOCIETY FAILED IN ITS DEEDS SOMEWHERE.

Ameya Agrawal

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

I hate society’s notion that there is something wrong with sex. Something wrong with a woman who loves sex.

Alessandra Torre

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Woodrow Wilson

Society does not judge those it admires, they are deified. Yet it so eagerly burn those it fails to understand

Love

No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse

William E. Dodd

That which we want less of in society should rarely be privatized and that which we want more of often should be.

William MacGregor Robson

The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.

Gloria Steinem

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Essential Drucker: Management, the Individual and Society

The doors to parenthood are accessible to all who know the codes and have the right keys.

An Evolving Society

Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

Beginner's Luke

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves.

James Welch

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

Romano Prodi

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

Rufus Wainwright

I know a lot of people who transitioned and dropped out of society for two years. They don't talk to anybody. They become hermits. They try to do everything alone.

Candis Cayne

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Dorothy Day

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Jessamyn West

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt