Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Frontier:' a kind of 'it-continent.'
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
Getting so much attention all at once, with so many people who want something from you or want to talk to you... for someone who is overly sensitive to other people's needs, that can be difficult.
We are not in a situation where the minorities are demanding something and the majorities are pushing back saying 'We don't want it.'
I have a very active social life. It may look glamorous, and it is, but it also takes an enormous amount of time.
our answer to the inciters of violence, our assurance of meeting peacefully—without any good reason for resort to violence—all demands to which new exigencies may give rise.
The ability to amend the Constitution is
Government cannot be all things to all people.
I'm well aware of the people's wishes.
Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually all of his adult life balancing his restrained homosexuality, which is bound together with his sensitivity to beauty and thus with his artistic vocation, against the demands of conventional society.
Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.
Everyone aims to get close to me and I've got to learn how to be able to cope, and that's what we work on all the time.
There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much.
Now Dave Eggers, if you lived in San Francisco, is not an easy person to be done with. Everyone - and by everyone, I mean every white person with a college education and an interest in books - wants a piece of him. It's not just his amazingly powerful prose; it's also his charitable works.
Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are set in motion by the demands set up by current social occupations.
I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.
We have been obliged to respond to the compulsions of our society.
The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar.
