Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

Letter to a Christian Nation

Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.

Loving Each Other

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

Leap

When people say sex is a filth of society, I say, yes! You're born by enchanting mantras and breaking coconuts!

Lemon Tea and White Safari

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

The day people will start using their learner's instincts instead of the survival instincts in the education, our society will no longer be a place where education kills your knowledge.

A Leap Within

Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Effectual Change: Good leaders value change, they accomplish a desired change that gets the organization and society better.

The Sagacity of Sage

In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred,It is a paryer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.

The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows

Society sucks. It should not matter what others think, if we are fine with it. Still we both have to concern ourselves with what others might see and think.

Tormented Discovery

Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge

Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin

She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men’s boots in bad weather

Pillars of Society

Strange, how in all those apocalyptic movies, when their society breaks down into lawlessness and anarchy, Canada is always the haven of safety, the place people want to escape to.

Resurrecting Cybele

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

The Reader

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless in the principle of forgiveness to the powerful.

Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels obligated to help them.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.

Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

Think a Second Time

I never intended to become a zombie huntress; I had only intended to protest prom, high school’s last bastion of patriarchal society.

Vegan Teenage Zombie Huntress

Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism.

Voice of Reason

What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

MacMillian pinched the bridge of his nose. Conspiracy theories, secret societies... what the hell had he gotten himself into? What was next? Vampires? Werewolves?

A World Apart