Modern Capitalist Society

Famous quotes containing the words capitalist society, modern, capitalist and/or society:

    It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.
    Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

    The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
    Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)

    ... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods, and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.
    Toni Cade (b. 1939)

    We’re scientists, aren’t we? That’s one society where frayed cuffs don’t matter. We’ve all had ‘em.
    Walter Reisch (1903–1963)