Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.

Traditions And Transformations: Contemporary Afro American Sculpture: The Bronx Museum Of The Arts, February 21 May 27, 1989

An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of th...

Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory

Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who lived through this, even a little bit, they carry it inside. The contemporary isn't just what you c...

Per Petterson

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai Stevenson

Law reflects but in no sense determines the moral worth of a society. The values of a reasonably just society will reflect themselves in a reasonably just law. The better the society, the less law there will be. In heaven there will be no law, and th...

The Ages of American Law

I think he is the ornament of society! Oh, there is not just one role for the artist in society. He has many roles and he has a different role as society changes, and in different societies . . . He can be a seer at times, and in the eighteenth centu...

Peter Taylor

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

Salman Rushdie

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

We need to stop fighting the old systems and start creating new containers for people who are going through these spiritual openings,’ Tavis reflected. ‘Together, we need to build something that’s never existed before—a global network of ligh...

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic

Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God.

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.

50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus

To die to our neighbors means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and thus to become free to be compassionate. Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really...

The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry

Literature is impossible, in exactly this sense: every new generation has so much 'catching up' to do that the real choice that presents itself soon is the following one: one either spends ones entire life just reading all the classics, or one preten...

Martinus Hendrikus Benders

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

Natan Sharansky

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.

Rob Walton

All Renaissance drama, especially the works of Marlowe and Shakespeare, is profoundly concerned with shifting power relations within society. The individual was a new force in relation to the state. The threat of rebellion, of the overturning of esta...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

There is no doubt that the biblical concept of the Kingdom calls for a ministry to the suffering, the imprisoned, the oppressed, the hungry and whomever is dehumanized by an unjust society. In abstract, almost all of us can affirm this with enthusias...

What Is Anglicanism?

[...] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.

Eurydice in the Underworld

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

Irvine Welsh

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

Joseph P. Bradley

How we think about God matters. It affects the credibility of religion in general and of Christianity in particular. Our concept of God can make God seem real or unreal, just as it can also make God seem remote or near.

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith