Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

Salman Rushdie

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

Steven Seagal

This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

Sydney Schanberg

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

Serj Tankian

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.

Tony Abbott

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Thomas Jefferson

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Theodore Parker

We are what make up society.

Tom Shadyac

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

will.i.am

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.

Yo-Yo Ma

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

Doug Stanhope

Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.

William Wordsworth

There can be no doubt that the existing Fauna and Flora is but the last term of a long series of equally numerous contemporary species, which have succeeded one another, by the slow and gradual substitution of species for species, in the vast interva...

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

The public has a right to art The public is being ignored by most contemporary artists. ... Art is for everybody. ... I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual id...

Keith Haring Journals

If Aliosha had come to the conclusion that neither God nor immortality existed, he would immediately have become an atheist and a socialist. For socialism is not only a question of the working classes; it is above all, in its contemporary incarnation...

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

shall I spend much of your time pointing out the degree to which televisual values influence the contemporary mood of jaded weltschmerz, self-mocking materialism, blank indifference, and the delusion that cynicism and naïveté are mutually exclusive...

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

I want to say to the literature teacher who remains wilfully, even boastfully ignorant of a major element of contemporary fiction: you are incompetent to teach or judge your subject. Readers and students who do know the field, meanwhile, have every r...

The Secret History of Fantasy

Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations. "If I can ...

Man In The Modern Age

You might be offered oatcakes as well as bread (especially in the north). If these do not tempt you, consider eating "horse-bread." This is made from a sort of flour of ground peas, bran, and beans–if contemporaries look at you strangely, it is bec...

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the playe...

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century