Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
It has become a cliché to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral,… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
Modern times are dominated by Satan and will be more so in the future. The conflict with hell cannot be engaged by… — Maximilian Kolbe Copy Share Image
I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“What we mean by liberal in the liberal regime is “free” and also independent. We mean people doing as they please to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The Luddites ... asserted the precedence of community needs over technological innovation and monetary profit; ... The victory of industrialism over Luddism… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I never feel like I am "using" a voice, rather I am listening to a voice and recording it as faithfully as… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
“with sin. Eve was tempted by a serpent (a phallic power symbol). It is interesting to note that the serpent has always… — Christopher Hyatt Copy Share Image
“I realised from quite early on in my childhood that I saw things differently from other people,' he wrote. 'But, more than… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The salvation of art derives in the best of modern times from a celebration of the triumph of the autonomous self—as in… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
“There are not many places left in the United States where people can get off the computer, stop filing tax returns, and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wollard recited the full formal greeting, as was customary. The younger members of the staff rolled their eyes and looked bored, as… — Scott Meyer Copy Share Image
The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic… — Dale Bumpers Copy Share Image
“slavery was an economic institution of the first importance. It had been the basis of Greek economy and had built up the… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
It is our pride that the Great Satan (U.S.) and the head of despotism, corruption and arrogance in modern times considers us… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via… — Adi Da Copy Share Image
For never has there been, in modern times, such a Homeric world, where so much value is pinned onto the utterance of… — Sara Suleri Copy Share Image
“of a London nearly two centuries gone, back when it was a pox-infested, grimy, depressing, fog-bound, class-favoring, sprawling, noxious, odorous, and overall… — Peter David Copy Share Image
For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia… — Ernest Nagel Copy Share Image
Everything has become very corporate and very careful. Before we had a real democracy going and there were a lot of freedoms… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
“Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost when he had wrecked the holy town… — Emily Wilson Copy Share Image
“I know for a fact the first UFOs reported in modern times, just before the crash at Roswell, were boomerang shaped and… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times… — Lionel Terray Copy Share Image
