Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

W. H. Auden

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

Edward Sapir

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

Evelyn Glennie

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

Muhammad Yunus

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Nancy Friday

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Peter Zumthor

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

Edward Bond

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

Julian Barnes

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.

Malcolm Mclaren

If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money.

Robert Crumb

By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.

Robert Wilson

The suicide passes a judgment. Society does not care to examine the judgment, but in defense of itself as is, condemns the suicide.

The Art of Dying

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

The Affluent Society

Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of Western commercial society. The debate is not about art but about culture and economics.

Virginia Postrel

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.

The Institutes of Biblical Law, Volume 1 of 3

For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.

The Interpretation of Murder

Society tends to stick labels on everything and everyone. The label that is given to you will stick with you for a lifetime.

An Involuntary Spy

THE Biggest enemy of Truth is known as Facts in our Society

KISS Life "Life is what you make it"

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.

Killosophy

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

A Room of One's Own