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1 " Ultimately, loneliness is not the experience of lacking but the experience of living. It is part and parcel of the human condition, and, unless a person is resolved, it can only be a matter of time before it resurfaces, often with a vengeance. On this account, loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of meaning from the universe, an absence that is all the more glaring in modern societies which have sacrificed traditional and religious structures of meaning on the thin altar of truth. "
― Neel Burton , For Better For Worse: Should I Get Married?
2 " However, in part for reasons of organizationalconvenience, modern societies are structured as if all humans had the same sleep requirements; and in many parts of the world there is a satisfying sense of moral rectitude in rising early. The amount of sleep required for buffer dumping would then depend on how much we have both thought and experienced since the last sleep period. "
― Carl Sagan , Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
3 " What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations. "
― Charles Taylor , The Ethics of Authenticity
4 " The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially "
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Elements of the Philosophy of Right
