Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

Great Expectations

I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society.

The Gambler

Boredom is a powerful reason, and the prospect of fun is a powerful draw - especially when you are young.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

‎What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there’s the devil to pay.

Henderson the Rain King

A brick could be used to keep yourself warm, and a blanket could be used in the construction of a house. But just like wearing your boxers on the outside of your pants, if you reverse them you get further in society. 

Brick and Blanket

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

Bridget Jones's Diary

All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society’s institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions.

The Black Ice

Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.

The Beauty Myth

No despotism, no privileged monopolies, no police societies, no divine rights of the emirs or feudal landlords or shady priests and sheikhs. All had the same equal footing—the rich and the poor, the noble and the common.

The Bees Road

Eton produced Society's Monsters - everyone knew that. Politicians, mostly, and occasionally people who ran banks and all the other institutions that stole the world's spoils for themselves.

The Boy in the Smoke

In seeking to severely penalize criminals society by putting the criminals away behind safe walls actually provide them with the means of greater strength for future atrocities glorious and otherwise.

Big Sur

Look out!! Ha! Now you've done it! Now you've broken a lamp, and you've got no one to blame it on but yourself!" "Maybe I could blame it on society!

The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960

There’s nothing more uplifting like the joy of waking up every morning knowing your family is safe from the perils of our society”.

Cybersex: A Nightmare of the 21st Century: The Rebirth of Armageddon

I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of...

Lyndon B. Johnson

When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties.

Philippe Petit

Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in which they live. As with so many immature individuals of all living kinds, everything they do is excessive and uncoordinated with the needs or...

Sherwin B. Nuland