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“We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.”

“We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.”

Thinking Way Needs Should Trying Believe Ends Spiritual I Believe Rooms Atheist Believer Respectful

Author:Alan Lightman

“We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.”

Men Stills States Left Emotional Development Periods Intellectual Historical Narcissism Symptoms Discrepancies Intellectual Development Discrepancies Between Emotional Development

Author:Christopher Lasch

Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.”

Thinking House Window Mirrors

Author:Frederick Salomon Perls

“We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it has really gotten. But our exiled spirits can tell. Deep in our bones resides an ancient singing couple who just won't give up making their beautiful, wild noise. The world won't end if we can find them.”

Ifs World Giving Kind Ends Light Age Beautiful Spirit Dark Couple Giving Up Singing Ancient Bones Noise Lit Dark Ages Synthetic Won't Give Up

Author:Martin Prechtel

“We live in a kissy society.”

Author:Michael Bergin

“We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.”

Faces Opportunity Land Globes

Author:Bob Taft

“We live in a land of freedom, and the only freedoms we can choose are to spend, fuck and eat. The rest is taboo. Loner. Slut. Weirdo. Faggot. Whore. Bitch. Druggie. Scrounger. Ugly. Poor. Muslim. Other.”

Thruth

Author:Claire North

Source: The Sudden Appearance of Hope

“We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.”

Way Safe Sorry

Author:James Young

“We live in a material world, not a dramatic one.”

World Materials Dramatic Material World

Author:Richard Flanagan

“We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.”

World Beautiful Culture Our Lives Materials Beautiful Things Material World

Author:Tom Ford

“We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.”

World Matter Humanity Appeals Materialism

Author:Wole Soyinka

“We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change.”

Use Culture Influence Media Using Me

Author:Paul Watson

“We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.”

Wells Life Is Fighting Individual Media Accounts Programming Truthful Soup

Author:Marge Piercy

“We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.”

World Technology Media Personality Obsessed

Author:Eric Alterman

“We live in a melting pot. More and more, people are some kind of mixture. Even if you're Caucasian, you're a mixture of something.”

People Ifs Kind Pot Mixtures Melting Melting Pot Caucasian

Author:Brooklyn Sudano

“We live in a messed up world, two people give more importance to how their relationship looks when viewed from the perspective of other people than the views of their own perspective.”

Relationship Perspective Messed Up World

Author:Nitya Prakash

“We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.”

Ifs World Facts Modern Style Disease Musical Contemporary Modern World Contamination Contemporary Music Musical Style

Author:Ennio Morricone

“We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.”

Ifs Way Writing Wells Moments Culture Reading

Author:Jennifer Egan

“We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.”

May Important Moments Importance Privacy

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.”

Moments Change Aging Historical Disappear Social Change Change Management Change Is Good Managing Change Ready For Change

Author:R. D. Laing

Source: The Politics of Experience

“We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.”

Moments Opportunity Possibility Pregnant

Author:Gary Hamel

“We live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach.”

Moments Dream Opportunity Equal Equal Opportunity Within Reach

Author:Barack Obama

“We live in a much more complicated time than when Superman was created 75 years ago. Or even when Superman The Movie was created in the 70s. There are great advances but with those come a great many complications.We felt that the character needed to grow up in that kind of environment and had to face those kinds of colossal choices that were not going to be easy. It's difficult to figure out the right path. And even if you do good there are causalities to your choices. We thought it would be compelling.”

“We live in a multidimensional world. Why would you live a one-dimensional love? If you love someone... feel it, speak it, show it, be it.Do more than tell them… show them. Let them feel your dedicated respect and your unwavering devotion. Ensure that your commitment and passion are known and unquestionable. Show them what they mean to you… what they are to you. And… if you don’t feel inspired to show your love in this multidimensional manner… be kind enough to let them go… so they can find someone who will.”

Love Relationships Marriage Respect True Love

Author:Steve Maraboli

“We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken.”

Life Stars Our Lives Mystery Gravity Tides Exploding

Author:John Daniel

“We live in a nation where corporations are people.”

People Nations Corporations

Author:Lizz Winstead

“We live in a nation where education and free thought are tantamount to treason, and I have to ask, under these circumstances, is treason such a bad thing?”

Philosophy Politics Civil Disobedience

Author:Michel Templet

“We live in a new age in which the artist neither can have such a unique heroic importance nor believes in the Art-God enough to desire it, an age, for instance, when the necessity of dogma is once more recognised, not as the contradiction of reason and feeling but as their ground and foundation.”

Reason

Author:W.H. Auden

Source: The Enchafèd Flood: or, The Romantic Iconography of the Sea

“We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.”

“We live in a new time and a new place, and people have to begin to be ready for the kind of oversight that the public is demanding.”

People Kind Ready New Places Oversight

Author:Ras Baraka

“We live in a niche world.”

World Economy Niche

Author:Leigh Steinberg

“We live in a noisy world. Revelation comes in the quiet times. It will come when the Lord can speak to our feelings. Go quietly. Go quietly into the world. Go quietly about your affairs, and learn that in the still, small hours of the morning the Lord will speak to you. He will never fail to answer your prayers. --Boyd K. Packer”

Simplify Revelation Quietly

Author:Carolyn J. Rasmus

“We live in a paradox: connected electronically but disconnected interpersonally. However, when you recognize the problem, you can take steps to correct it. You can create an emotionally connected environment anywhere if you try hard enough.”

Trying Enough Problem Environment Paradox

Author:Edward Hallowell

“We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.”

Men Culture Okay

Author:Alan Ball

“We live in a perilous age. As I write these words, COVID-19 has become a global crisis. Autocrats, including Trump, hold power in a growing number of countries around the world. Democracy and freedom are at greater peril than at any point in decades. The earth is warming at warp speed, and the catastrophic consequences are more evident every day. Despite these warning signs, we are not dramatically changing our habits of consumption or significantly reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. Income inequality—the gap between the richest and poorest people in the world—is rising at a rate that engenders growing fury among the less privileged.”

Global Warming Income Inequality Autocrats Threat To Democracy

Author:Tony Schwartz

Source: Dealing with The Devil, My Mother, Trump and Me

“We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.”

Seems Stars Periods Complexes These Days Psychics

Author:Camille Paglia

“We live in a period where people spend more time trying to influence people they don’t know, neglecting the people who are next to them craving their attention.”

Relationships Love Quotes Society Relationship Quotes Self Awareness Parenting Love Quotes And Sayings Quotes To Live By Impressing Others

Author:Sope Agbelusi

“We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.”

States Species Sake Following Permanent Mutual Sane Representation Imperatives

Author:Thomas Ligotti

“We live in a polarized world of contrived dualisms, dichotomies and paradoxes: light vs. dark and good vs. evil. We as Mexic Amerindians/mestizas are the dark. We are the evilor at least, the questionable.”

World Light Evil Dark Opposites Paradox Questionable Dichotomy Good Vs Evil Dualism

Author:Ana Castillo

Source: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma

“We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.”

World Stills Ends Matter Light Today Purpose House Music Teacher Influence Mirrors Authenticity Posts The End Of The Day Personal History

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters.”

People Capitalist Parking Meter Predatory Commodification Parking Meters

Author:Cornel West

“We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.”

Feels Air Majors Transformation Uncertain Bleak Precipice

Author:Sean Lennon

“We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".”

Made Culture Easy Wealth Information Listening Entertainment Spread Loud Devices Passive Dose Impart Hedonism Dissipation Electronic Devices

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates.”

Needs Beautiful Stuff Lines Hair Skins Miracle Billions Fats Instant Shops Pounds Pot Extensions Insecure Gratification Wrinkles Cosmetics Glue Instant Gratification Quick Fixes Beauty Shop

Author:Joan Collins

“We live in a racist world. Everywhere there is racism. We say to White people, "You really have to examine how you behave in the world. You are responsible for deconstructing internalized racism and being part of a ongoing process of decolonizing yourself.”

People World Process White Racism Responsible Behave Racist Ongoing

Author:Eve Ensler

“We live in a rainbow of chaos.”

Love Dream Chaos Complexity Rainbow Beautiful Chaos

Author:Paul Cezanne

“We live in a REAL life comic book - Good vs. Evil (The enemy). Who we focus on makes a difference in our daily actions and words.”

Inspirational Motivational Spirituality Christianity Christian Inspirational Spiritual Growth Truth Of Life Biblical Sustainable Living Bible History

Author:Elizabeth Salamanca-Brosig

“We live in a real world. Come back to it.”

World Real Reality Truth Real World

Author:Natalie Portman

“We live in a really crazy time when there is information coming at you, and there are so many demands on your time. It really comes down to choosing your own priorities and forgiving yourself a lot and checking your own expectations.”

Crazy Expectations Forgiving Priorities Forgive Yourself

Author:Brigid Schulte

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