Modern world Quotes

Simplicity is the key to happiness in the modern world.

— The Dalai Lama

Jeremy, are we going to play your games?

— Alastair Campbell

“The modern world is insanity disguised as progress.”

— Steven Magee

The suburbs dream of violence.

— J. G. Ballard

More action packed than a Cardiff pub with Anne Robinson.

— Jonathan Ross

The Welsh... I mean, what are they for?

— Anne Robinson

The modern the world, the modern the baby

— Anonymous

An Englishman's car is his castle on wheels.

— Simon Jenkins

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

— Edward Abbey

I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you.

— Ricky Gervais

Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.

— H. L. Mencken

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

— Anthony Burgess

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

— Jean Danielou

Who knows what hellish future lies ahead? … Actually, I do. I've seen the rehearsals,

— Terry Wogan

The Soviet Union is an Evil Empire, and Soviet communism is the focus of evil in the modern world

— Ronald Reagan

Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the…

— Dan Brown

There are some things I don't like, about which I think, well, that's me. But coriander is a giant hoax perpetrated by…

— Stephen Fry

How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should…

— Indira Gandhi

“With approximately 50% of the USA population on prescription drugs and 10% on anti-depressants, it is clear that things are going seriously…

— Steven Magee

One of the hardest challenges posed by the modern world is how to deal with abundance. It's even harder to confront because…

— Naomi Alderman

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the…

— Edith Hamilton

I thought 'Hanna' was an opportunity to explore a character whose femininity was so raw and unconditioned by the modern world.

— Esme Creed-Miles

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

— J. Michael Straczynski

“For a long time I had wanted to take leave of Planet Tourism, to find one of those places that occasionally turn…

— Lawrence Osborne

Commonwealth is the only alternative for Puerto Rico. It is the only alternative that harmonizes the aspirations and goals of the modern…

— Anibal Acevedo Vila

“Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it,…

— Andrew Rayner

By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to…

— Os Guinness

“We are not designed to deal with the many stress-inducing situations of the twenty-first century. For most of human history, the stressors…

— Jed Diamond

“In our modern world of today, the search for personal satisfaction and fulfilment has become practically universal. It is extraordinary to consider…

— Richard Rudd

It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Asked to make a list of the men who have most dominated the thinking of the modern world, many educated people would…

— Ernest Van den Haag

“I was thinking a lot about loneliness, because we were now reading Kokoro, a remarkable novel by Natsume Soseki, which was published…

— Will Schwalbe

Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter…

— Cecil B. DeMille

“Being an aging woman in this modern world can be either tragic‌—‌or magic. We watch the body of our youth go through…

— Lucy Williams

“It’s just human psychological truth really. Anything acquired without effort and without cost investment of time and energy is generally unappreciated within…

— Scott Abel

I think in the modern world we really need to have movie theaters or places we can go in and rejuvenate ourselves.…

— Peter Stormare

“The great prophetic work of the modern world is Goethe’s Faust , so little appreciated among the Anglo-Saxons. Mephistopheles offers Faust unlimited…

— Robert Aickman

“For it had become evident to me that I was a great rebel. I fancied that I had suddenly risen above all…

— Thomas Merton

Life is precious Life is a god sent gift and it is your duty to live it to the full. You might…

— Kaile Stewart