Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

John Charles Polanyi

My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

Mac Thornberry

Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people

César Hidalgo

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Henry George

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

Daniel Goleman

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Honore de Balzac

Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.

Ian Mckellen

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

Octavia E. Butler

What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.

Robert Reich

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Thomas Fuller

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Albert Camus

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

Andrew Vachss

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.

Bill Bennett

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.

Brian Cox

Society is better off without certain people.

Bernhard Goetz

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

Bong Joon-ho

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.

Bernard Lagat

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

Clifton Daniel

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

Charles Edison

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

Corey Feldman