Science, engineering, and technology have transformed the infrastructure of the modern world and have a vital role to play at the heart… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
“Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
The Dalai Lama says Tibet and the modern world can engage in a conversation; perhaps Tibet has something to share with the… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of,… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern world, so full of freedom, independence and our… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“There was nothing in the modern world to excite a man, or a woman, nothing except constant and mindless entertainment.” — Ryan Westfield Copy Share Image
Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“Everybody on this island has one ambition, which may be summed up very simply. It is to do something, however small it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The way to maximize production is to maximize the incentives to production. And the way to do that, as the modern world… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Fond of bewailing the decadence of the modern world, of denouncing the younger generation for its lack of idealism and public spirit,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced… — Carlton J. H. Hayes Copy Share Image
“What is a woman’s place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin’s words read. I rebel against this question, though so many of… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“From the many years he’d spent in the Omega Agency, the special agent understood there were no obvious good guys or bad… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
“Differences between nations, so long as they do not lead to hostility, are by no means to be deplored. Living for a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“A sense of dislocation has been spreading through our societies like a bone cancer throughout the twentieth century. We all feel it:… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“And while [we] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
“And America has done much good. And there's no shortage of nations far exceeding any of its faults or sins. But no… — Jonathan Cahn Copy Share Image
In a modern world where so much globally is homogenised it was exciting to discover the individuality of the different remote communities. — Jock Zonfrillo Copy Share Image
I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination. — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.” — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
So this judge in Virginia rules that a lesbian wasn't fit to raise her own daughter because she might grow up to… — Chris Cannon Copy Share Image
The human mind is constructed to always move forward Hanging on to the philosophy of ancient people is a great stumbling block… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“Although it was almost midnight, London wasn't dark. Cities like London never were, she suspected, not anymore. The modern world had killed… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“How, in our modern world, can we find our way to understand the earth as a gift again, to make our relations… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
The romantic image of the ancient world is very inspiring, as is nature itself, but I think the dissatisfaction with our modern… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“While good old-fashioned manners and etiquette have worked for centuries, new standards and expectations have come into play with the modern world.… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If a defining characteristic of the modern world is disorder, then the most fundamental act of resistance is to establish order.” — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image