Quotes About Contemporary

Many contemporary critics of higher education similarly posit a Golden Age; but no one knows when it was supposed to exist.

A myriad of contemporary social, ethical, and theological questions are not addressed in the Bible, either because they were not part of the world in which the Bible arose or simply because they never come up in biblical contexts.

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, two contemporary theorists of U.S. empire, have also suggested that the root of contemporary U.S. imperial abuses "should be traced back to the very origins of the country, to black slavery and the genocidal wars against the Native Americans.

But both of us had been radicalized by parenthood. Having children had brought into horribly lurid focus the predatory face of contemporary capitalism.

Yet historical roots influence contemporary behavior and decisions for a city just as childhood experiences remain crucial to adult attitudes for an individual.

I believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up her dress.

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.

...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

Marriage was never my goal, because I've never been very traditional.

If I really got my ribs removed, I would have been busy sucking my own di.. on the wonder years instead of chasing winnie cooper. Besides, I wouldn't have sucked other people's di..s on stage, either. I would have been sucking my own. Plus, who really has time to be killing puppies when you can be sucking your own di..? I think I'm gonna call the surgeon in the morning.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements ... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

I have a really amazing fan club, it's contemporary but it's a little bit old school. There's a lot of connection. I have a fan club president who really responds to people.

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.

There are two monetary circuits in contemporary economies, a public money circuit and a commercial money circuit. Both create and circulate the public currency. The difference between them is that one is based on debt, the other is not.

Memoirists are our contemporary mythmakers.

Contemporary politics is truly an arena in which questions are badly put, or put in such a way that one cannot side with either of the two present contestants. We are called to choose between them. Our duty is to do no such thing.

Concern for the environment is a central tent of Islam, yet in contemporary debates over environmental issues there has been virtually no reference made to Islamic teaching

It is the duty and privilege of historians to deploy relativism in a fashion that cannot be expected of contemporary participants.

Whenever judges of the highest state courts have actually examined the details of the "savage inequalities" that continue to be imposed on most low-income and minority students in the United States, they have virtually unanimously held that these conditions deny students the opportunity to be educated at the basic levels that are needed to function well in contemporary society.

It is not that the contemporary world of music lacks an audiopolitics, but rather that it is coded as the politics of the market: who owns and controls the sound files. The politics of intellectual property and piracy have eclipsed the politics of musical form or content.

We attribute the problems of our children to liberalism, conservatism, godlessness, godfulness, evolutionism, creationism-anything that seems to make sense, except the quiet notion that contemporary parenting is a complex set of learned skills, many of which seem counterintuitive to us. It's not religion and it sure ain't politics. And it can be learned from good and bad sources, so we must constantly question and upgrade our learning.