Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

It is becoming fashionable to scorn the idea of sin in society. The impact of humanistic thinking is to belittle the concept that man is corrupt. Psychologists and psychiatrists would persuade us that people really are not responsible for their wrong...

Salt For Society

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

James Anthony Froude

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

Ludwig von Mises

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

Jose Mourinho

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

Kurt Russell

You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.

Reflections

Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societi...

Michael Ignatieff

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not ac...

Richard Rogers

Those born in the poorest quarter of American society have an 8% chance of earning a college degree. Those born in the wealthiest quarter of American society have a 75% chance of earning a college degree.

David Brooks

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

Nick Lowe

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

Barry Humphries

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Robert Morgan

I write nothing but contemporary romances.

Chuck Palahniuk

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

Bill Paxton

Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

Noah Baumbach

I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

Natalie Massenet

I read very little contemporary anything.

Alan Furst

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.

Cary Fukunaga

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Jean de la Bruyere

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

Natan Sharansky