Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.

Carole King

A responsible woman guides, controls (albeit subtly), directs with superior knowledge that is higher than that of her contemporaries!

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.

Donald Judd

I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.

Douglas Kirkland

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

John McWhorter

Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-malefi...

Sherwin B. Nuland

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

Alex Cox

Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.

Amanda Harlech

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.

Andrzej Wajda

Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. They ...

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditio...

Theodore Kaczynski

..Thus it can be said that ‘Human Rights’ is an ever expanding subject, which grows in leaps and bounds with the evolution of knowledge, development of the society and the advancement of the world at large, thereby encompassing within its ambit n...

Henrietta Newton Martin

Sometimes you need a reminder that negative comments about your body aren’t even really about your body, they’re about society and our society’s wrongheaded and impossibly narrow definition of a “good” body. Your body didn’t do anything w...

Golda Poretsky

Now (obviously) a sentence’s truth—even when we hold the sentence’s meaning fixed—depends on which world we are considering. “Brown is Prime Minister” is true in the actual world but, since Brown need not have been Prime Minister, there a...

Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction

For many of us prayer means nothing more than speaking with God. And since it usually seems to be a quite one-sided affair, prayer simply means talking to God. This idea is enough to create great frustrations. If I present a problem, I expect a solut...

The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ru...

Propaganda

I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her. -Nick Plato (from the story Platonick)

Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Essays: First and Second Series

I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.

Burning Lamp (Arcane Society, #8)

A brick could be used to represent society as a whole. But to represent society as a half, I’d recommend using either a full carton of half and half, or a half-full carton of whole milk.


Brick

The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.

Gail Collins