Modern Society Quotes

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Vince Lombardi

Work, Society, Football

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.
Clint Eastwood

Society, Youth, Modern

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
Ambrose Bierce

Society, Control, Earth

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Simone Weil

Society, Justice, Crime

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!
Stephen Covey

Family, Society, School

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.
Henry Van Dyke

Life, Society, Sadness

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.
Daniel Radcliffe

Society, Find, Word

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
Marilyn vos Savant

Society, Seem, Cause

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
William Hague

Change, Society, Changes

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.
James Buchan

Money, Society, Live

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now; they think that's going to sort things out.
Jarvis Cocker

Dreams, Faith, Society

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.
Ezra Miller

Society, Struggle, Try

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
Ahmet Necdet Sezner

Society, State, Police

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.
Alexander McCall Smith

Society, Together, Sense

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.
Herbert Read

Art, Society, Between

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
Ludwig von Mises

Peace, Society, Labor

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

Society, Saying, Feelings

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

Time, Death, Society

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
Wilkie Collins

Society, Important, Modern

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