Modern Society Quotes

• Pluralism and tolerance are pillars of modern society. That has to be accepted. But pluralism doesn't just mean diversity. It means that we share the same rules and values, and are still nevertheless different. Islam doesn't have this idea. And Islam also has no tradition of tolerance.

  

  Bassam Tibi
  • Diversity
  • Tolerance
  • Pluralism

• 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 Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Government
  • Secure
  • Declaration of Independence

• Of the ten crimes which Biblical Hebrew law punished by stoning, nine have ceased to be offenses in modern society.

  

  Joseph Lewis
  • Crimes
  • Hebrew
  • Ceased

• 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
  • Provoked
  • Modern Society
  • Puritanism

• Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize the "establishment" which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.

  

  Elizabeth Gould Davis
  • Humanitarian
  • Characterize
  • Materialist

• I want viewers want to talk about The Conquest. I want the dialogue to start after the movie. The cinema is there to leave a trace. I hope my film leaves a trace and that it will open a door for French cinema and that tomorrow other directors will make political movies. The job of a filmmaker today is to talk about the world surrounding him and, through his movies, to both entertain and raise questions about modern society.

  

  Xavier Durringer
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Filmmaker

• That decision to use basically all white models, reveals a trait that is unbecoming to modern society. It can no longer be accepted...

  

  Bethann Hardison
  • Decision
  • Models
  • Modern Society