Modern Society Quotes
Modern Society Quote of the day
Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.
A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.
Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.
What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.
Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate and trustworthy.
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
We expect more from technology and less from each other.
There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.
Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.
Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.
in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.
Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.
Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.
I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what we consider to be a norm in modern society.
Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
That decision to use basically all white models, reveals a trait that is unbecoming to modern society. It can no longer be accepted...
But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!
I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.
The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.
Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.
Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube.
Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.
In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.
People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.
One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.
I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.
As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen.
In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.
