Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

Elliott Erwitt

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

Arthur Koestler

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

Jeanette Winterson

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

Vince Gill

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

Juan Goytisolo

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

Rupert Sheldrake

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.

Elliott Carter

I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.

Laura Mvula

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

Jennette McCurdy

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

Anita Diament

I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.

Natalie Jeremijenko

The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.

Anna Wintour

There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?

Paolo Sorrentino

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

Walter Becker

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

Donna Leon

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

John Locke

It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light.

The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

Philip Pullman