Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions ar...

Martin Luther King Jr.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

A Doll's House

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

Deschooling Society

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.

The Enemy

Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases.

Exodus: Commentaries on the Pentateuch

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.

The First and Last Freedom

Dependence on drugs is not a disease, it is not a virus, it is not something that stalks only the dregs of society. Drug addiction is REALIZED EMOTIONAL DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.

Flaws of Oblivion

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

A Familiar Rain

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy

You do not realize what can happen when you liberate a mind from what society calls reason.

Gods on the Mountain

Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.

Help Is on the Way: A Collection of Basic Instructions: Collection of Basic Instructions v. 1

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

A brick could be affixed to each end of an axle, for an example of transportation in a pre-wheel society.  

A brick and a blanket walk into a bar

A brick could be hidden in the dirt, for future archaeologists to dig up and declare, “Wow! This was one advanced society.” 

Brick and Blanket

What society judged was not the severity of the disease but the social acceptability of the individuals affected with it…

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

The success of any society must be judged by the life of its worst off. No other calculation will do.

Big Machine

All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.

Banal Nationalism

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age...

Benazir Bhutto

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

Jonathan Sacks

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Thomas Szasz