Famous quotes containing the words technological society and/or society:
“Barely tolerated, living on the margin
In our technological society, we were always having to be rescued
On the brink of destruction....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“In the latter part of the seventeenth century, according to the historian of Dunstable, “Towns were directed to erect ‘a cage’ near the meeting-house, and in this all offenders against the sanctity of the Sabbath were confined.” Society has relaxed a little from its strictness, one would say, but I presume that there is not less religion than formerly. If the ligature is found to be loosened in one part, it is only drawn the tighter in another.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)