Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure.

Philip Kaufman

The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.

Richard Engel

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

Romola Garai

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

Rutherford B. Hayes

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

Scarlett Johansson

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

Samantha Morton

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Sigourney Weaver

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

Vladimir Putin

Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.

Vladimir Putin

U.S. society doesn't want to play the role of international policeman.

Vladimir Putin

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

A. Whitney Brown

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

Yoko Ono

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

Johnny Otis

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

Carol Alt

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Margaret Thatcher

There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.

Abdallah II of Jordan

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

Anais Nin

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

Amartya Sen

Once, for Paul, as for his contemporaries, Israel’s election and the demand of the law stood side by side in unresolved tension. Now he found their resolution, not in some synthesis or new idea, but in an event: the incarnation, crucifixion and res...

Christ, Our Righteousness: Paul's Theology of Justification

Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effect...

Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922

Spending $100 million on a fancy gym is completely unremarkable in contemporary American higher education. Yet $10 million for a really good online biology course that could serve millions of students is seen as an outlandish, unaffordable expense.

The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere