#modern society

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

— Wilkie Collins

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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

#analysis #anything #earth #feelings #i

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

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

— Clint Eastwood

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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

#basically #becoming #come #dreams #faith

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

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

— Simone Weil

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

— William Hague

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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

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

— Vince Lombardi

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