Modern Society Quotes - Page 5

• What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Hemisphere, Modern

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• 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.

  Carl Rogers

  Life, Useless, Hopeless

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.

  William Shatner

  Pain, Party, Divorce

  William Shatner (2009). “Up Till Now”, p.136, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Men, Feelings, Sound

  "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

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• Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger, you cannot even see where it's coming from as it moves swiftly towards you.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Wisdom, Moving, Politics

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• Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

  Jared Diamond

  Thinking, Islands, Space

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.129, Penguin

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• Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

  Alexander Stille

  Justice, Accountability, Modern

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Christianity, Neighbor, Modern

  Benjamin Disraeli (1872). “Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

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• 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.

  Marya Mannes

  Passion, Long, Dying

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• 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.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Past, Men, Order

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• Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women.

  Judy Grahn

  Blood, Modern, Source

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• When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Children, Mean, Kids

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• Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge and their evaluative systems so as both to locate themselves and their projects in some larger imaginative structure that makes sense to them. ... Furthermore, many modern agents would like it to be the case that the form of orientation which their life has is, if not true, at least compatible with the best available knowledge.

  Raymond Geuss

  Agents, Might, Way

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.

  Karl Marx

  Hair, Holy Grail, Gold

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.149, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  Antonin Scalia

  Christian, Scary, Melting

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• 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.

  Antonin Scalia

  Christian, Taken, Views

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• We think that we have to do so many things and it's unfortunate, entire modern society is besotted with the do-ables, we have to do this, we have to have a half-hour of yoga, an hour of meditation, 2 hours of this, and then 12 hours of work and non-stop electronic gadgets, gizmos etc. etc., and then go home and take care of the family, and then take the children to wherever, and what tends to happen is we do way too much. The society does way too much. One of the greatest things in healing is try for just one day to do nothing. Very difficult.

  Maya Tiwari

  Children, Yoga, Healing

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Rights, Government, Safety

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• No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They have access to the leaders of tomorrow and the leaders of today. What they do matters to the wider public.

  David W. Orr

  College, Leaders Of Tomorrow, Environmental

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• I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, Numbness, Violence

  "Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock". Book by Simon Reynolds, 1988.

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• In some places, there's the concept of one religion, one truth. In the Muslim world, there's the notion of Allah. The Western, multireligious modern society is some kind of a challenge to this. These, I feel, are the main causes [for terrorism], and, when combined with lots of anger and frustration, cause a huge amount of hate.

  Dalai Lama

  Hate, Frustration, Challenges

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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• You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Writing, Past, Empathy

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• 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.

  Will Herberg

  Believe, Struggle, Men

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• 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.

  Michel Foucault

  Hypocrisy, Facts, Modern

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.47, Vintage

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• The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.

  Susan Blackmore

  Sex, Taken, Modern

  Susan Blackmore (2000). “The Meme Machine”, p.141, Oxford Paperbacks

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