“News invented the modern world as much as the modern world invented news. Finding out what was going on elsewhere in the… — Lawrence Kleep Copy Share Image
In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
“Pomeranz, K. (2000) The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.” — Jane Pollard Copy Share Image
“That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In this modern world, where we have filters to make us look as nice as possible, it's good to take off the… — Aisling Bea Copy Share Image
Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
Try to cultivate hope in whatever way you can, and don't think that's fanciful or some sort of ridiculous notion that has… — Fearne Cotton Copy Share Image
“The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate ‘residues’ of the ancient… — René Guénon Copy Share Image
The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world - and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
“His addiction to millenarianism, his confidence in visions, his prophetic stridency, his hatred of art, and his mistrust of secular scholarship align… — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we can discharge… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
“Though the turn of the twenty-first century was derided for its proliferation of disposable waste, Yona loved how the era had been… — Z. Rockward Copy Share Image
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Around the time my first marriage of twenty-one years was ending, I had spent a lot of time reflecting on the fairytale… — Theresa J. Knight Copy Share Image
“The Light and the Darkness both flow in to Delhi. Gurgaon, where Mr. Ashok lived, is the bright, modern end of the… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
This film [Doctor Strange] kind of takes that everyday boring reality and really bursts it wide. So we talked a lot about… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Healthy areas that are richest in information are those areas in the wild where we can get all the information that's available… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare's plays do not present easy solutions. The audience has to decide for itself. King Lear is perhaps the most disturbing in… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
One of the problems of our modern world is that there's a lot of things to work through, but, at some point,… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
“For tolerance (and you must remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no… — Humbert Wolfe Copy Share Image
People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity.… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The modern world is very wealthy, it's full of options. It's not like "This is the land I was born on and… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Pandemics have long been among my favorite topics to teach sociology with, not because the subject is cheery, but because they contain… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The nature of power in the modern world is that it is also constructed in relation to political, moral, intellectual, cultural, ideological,… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts.… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image