Famous quotes containing the words modern society, modern and/or society:
“There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crimenamely, repressive justice.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
“The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge.... The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (18251895)
“I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James;
I am not up to small deceit, or any sinful games;
And Ill tell in simple language what I know about the row
That broke up our society upon the Stanislow.
But first I would remark, that it is not a proper plan
For any scientific man to whale his fellow-man,”
—Bret Harte (18361902)