Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.

Stella Young

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

John Charles Polanyi

Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

Anas Aremeyaw Anas

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

Andrew Cuomo

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Arthur C. Clarke

Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.

Al Jourgensen

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

Andrej Pejic

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

Andrew Young

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

Bernhard Goetz

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

Benjamin Tucker

Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

Chen Guangcheng

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

Christopher Lasch

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

Clara Zetkin

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Don DeLillo

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.

Dana Plato

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.

David Ricardo

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

Edward Carpenter

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

Eliot Spitzer