#modern society

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

— Clint Eastwood

#modern #modern society #now #our #society

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

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

— Ahmet Necdet Sezner

#being #demands #elements #meet #modern

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

#comes #critic #dismal #every #every man

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

— Simone Weil

#hideous #justice #modern #modern society #more

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

— William Hague

#change #changes #i #i think #modern