Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

Show me a filthy public restroom and I’ll show you a society where discipline and order have broken down.

The Best of This Is A Crazy Planets

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.

Ai Weiwei

Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.

Bernard Werber

The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burd...

Dave deBronkart

In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.

Jeff Miller

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Jonathan Sacks

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: clima...

Jay Griffiths

Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

Zaha Hadid

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Ernst Fischer

Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existin...

Ivan Krastev

A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and harmoniously developed. Thus developed, nature and art and society supply him with a thousand sources of enjoyment.

Joseph P. Bradley

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society.

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.

Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.

Are Prisons Obsolete?

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

Hitch-22: A Memoir

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

Ham on Rye

Count me in, Kat." He squeezed her tighter. "You should always count me in." - W. W. Hale the Fifth

Heist Society

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

Heist Society

They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.

The Handmaid's Tale