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Quotes About Present-day

If adjustment is necessary, it should be made primarily with regard to the position the homosexual occupies in present-day society, and society should more often be treated than the homosexual.
~ Harry Benjamin
It would be absurd to maintain that Marxism was, so to speak, the efficient cause of present-day Communism; on the other hand, Communism is not a mere 'degeneration' of Marxism but a possible interpretation of it, and even a well-founded one, though primitive and partial in some respects.
~ Leszek Ko?akowski
it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Because it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.
~ Jean Baudrillard
For me taking part in the decay of present-day man is an entertaining task and the only one that interests me.
~ Tristan Tzara
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
~ Christopher Hitchens
It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold over us that even when we try to imagine the past the minor events in our lives immediately wrench us out of our musings, and our own adventures throw us back irrevocably upon our personal feelings—joy, boredom, suffering, anger, or a smile.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Acceptance is like an antibiotic that prevents past rejections from turning into present-day infections. The need for belonging runs deep.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Present day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation, and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor.
~ John Steinbeck