Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

Sara Sheridan

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

B. R. Ambedkar

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.

Joan Didion

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

Leonard Slatkin

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Pope Paul VI

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

William Graham Sumner

My parents were passionate about what they did, very cheap, and very focused on doing good in society.

Anne Wojcicki

I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts.

Claire Tomalin

The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.

Frans de Waal

Any entrepreneur worth their salt knows that their brand is worthless if it doesn't somehow contribute to society or the overall good of the planet.

Lynda Resnick

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Henry David Thoreau

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Jean de la Bruyere

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

David Antin

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

Miriam Makeba

The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.

Bong Joon-ho

Always bear in mind that you came into this life to impress God and not the society.

Edmond Mbiaka

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

Cotton Mather

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.

Elliott Abrams

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

John Lennon

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

J.B. Priestley