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The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. -- Kit Williams
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people. -- C. L. R. James
We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.' -- Robert Winston
I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need. -- Ross MacDonald
Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to raise many children. And even in homes with two parents, many children are essentially alone. -- Michael Gurian
Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it. -- Umberto Eco
The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality. -- Richard J. Foster
In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history. -- Emily James Smith Putnam
Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ...It is a crime against humanity. -- Pope Francis
When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other. -- Albert Schweitzer
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the scriptures contain all the knowledge required to deal with the problems of contemporary society. -- Arnold Beichman
... while in theory digital technology entails the flawless replication of data, its actual use in contemporary society is characterized by the loss of data, degradation, and noise; the noise which is even stronger than that of traditional photography. -- Lev Manovich
Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In our contemporary society, one so over-inundated with imagery, it is easy to overlook the power of a single frame to change the way we look at the world, or rally disparate hearts to a single cause. Yet, ours is a society shaped by this very phenomenon. -- Steve McCurry
Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem to him to be so; it is a problem of attitude to contemporary society and culture in relation to the basic human problem of learning to be human. -- John Blacking
Today, journalists more than any other cohort of professionals, are responsible for the confusion that surrounds power and its criminality in contemporary society. As Janet Malcolm said in another context, 'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.' -- Martin Walker
Consider in what way the industrial system developed upon capitalist lines. Why were a few rich men put with such ease into possession of the new methods? Why was it normal and natural in their eyes and in that of contemporary society that those who produced the new wealth with the new machinery should be proletarian and dispossessed? -- Hilaire Belloc
The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before. Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living. -- Herbert Marcuse
In contemporary society, advertising is everywhere. We cannot walk down the street, shop, watch television, go through our mail, log on to the Internet, read a newspaper or take a train without encountering it. Whether we are alone, with our friends or family, or in a crowd, advertising is always with us, if only on the label of something we are using. -- Guy Cook
We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. 'We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.' ...It is time to awaken to the fact that conformity to a sick society is to be sick. -- Richard J. Foster
This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society. -- Nick Love
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society. -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
Yes, I'm a reasonably good self-taught historian of the 1930s and '40s. I've never wanted to write about another time or place. I wouldn't know what to say about contemporary society. -- Alan Furst
For its speculations to be taken seriously, dystopian fiction must be part of a discussion of contemporary society, a projection of ongoing political failures perhaps, or the wringing of present jeopardy for future disaster. -- Sarah Hall
There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it. -- Jami Attenberg
The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. -- Talcott Parsons
I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society. -- Kara Walker
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society. -- Victor Pinchuk
This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society, -- Ai Weiwei
My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society. -- Herbert Bayer
You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV. -- David Hare
Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity. -- Herbert Marcuse
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen. -- Lauren DeStefano
The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society? -- Jeremy Paxman
It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society. -- Peter Clewes
Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition. -- Erich Fromm
I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work. -- Romola Garai
The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against injustice and corruption in our society. -- Tariq Ramadan

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