“The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.” WorldMeanShowsEarthCommunityChurchPleasureModernIndependenceNeighborMeaningfulGod LoveFulfilledMeaningful LifeModern SocietyRejectingFalse Gods Author:Philip Yancey
“In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the entertainment industry. Powerful erotic images are used for the sole purpose of selling consumer products; the side effects of this commercialization have a profound impact on the sexual imagination and identity of vast numbers of people.” PeopleHas BeensUsedPurposeProcessSidesImaginationPowerfulNumbersTakenModernEffectsIdentityProductsIndustryImpactProfoundEntertainmentSellingAdvertisingConsumersCorporationsSoleEroticModern SocietyEntertainment IndustrySide EffectsCommercialization Author:Robert Lawlor
“The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked.” IfsNeedsInterestModernConflictRateIncomeWickedCapitalistDilemmaFormationCondemnationModern SocietyDividends Author:Peter Drucker
“We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be treated the same, when it comes to the moment of excretion, even the most modern society - especially the most modern society - segregates two restrooms with little icons outside the doors, one wearing a dress, one wearing pants.” MenShouldLittlesTwoMatterMomentsDoorsModernEqualMen And WomenDressesTreatedPantsIconsModern SocietyRestroomWearing A Dress Author:W. J. T. Mitchell
“I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.” HappensModernEssentialsFinanceBankingModern Society Author:Adam McKay
“By 1975 - and continuing to today - all Americans came to believe that they had a "right" to a safe, clean, healthy environment. When I grew up, no one seriously criticized the steel mills and paper mills for the deadly stench they produced - that was the smell of prosperity. In the modern society, no one would tolerate such conditions in an American city.” BelieveTodayCitiesEnvironmentModernConditionsGrewHealthySafePaperGrew UpCleanProsperitySmellTolerateContinuingSteelMillsModern SocietyAmerican CitiesHealthy Environment Author:Denis Hayes
“As people who are women, who are Indigenous and live on Indigenous lands, we know, and this is something I understand the older I get, that they don't visit the same way the postman may visit but they do visit. They visit in ways that our modern society often disregards and considers immaterial or unreal.” PeopleKnowsWayMayModernLandIndigenousUnrealDisregardModern SocietyPostman Author:Sandra Cisneros
“You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.” NeedsLooksModernConditionsInequalityTypicalModern Society Author:Rem Koolhaas