Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
Atlantis: Fabled. Mystical. Golden. Mysterious. Glorious and magical. There are those who claim that it never was. But then there are also… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Forgotten phone numbers and birthdays represent minor erosions of our everyday memory, but they are part of a much larger story of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
There is a middle path between indulgence and suppression, but the culture has overwhelmed that in the cacophony that has been created… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In the past, I used to think real love was anti-capitalistic. I believed love, as the modern world understood it, was an… — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share Image
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“To leave the comforts of home, the mother world, one must have some place to go. Admittedly, the rites of passage of… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“They argue that the modern world was created by private capital. The subcontinent of India, for instance, was owned by the British… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Nowhere in politics is there such a mismatch between public and private realm as in transport. Everyone on the M6 last weekend… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
“How could a large land empire thrive and dominate in the modern world without reliable access to world markets and without much… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Naysayers at their polite best chided the rewilders for romanticizing the past; at their sniping worst, for tempting a 'Jurassic Park' disaster.… — William Stolzenburg Copy Share Image
Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“The modern world is full of pundits, poseurs, and mall ninjas. Preparedness is not just about accumulating a pile of stuff. You… — James Wesley Rawles Copy Share Image
For me, it's a multitude of things. In the modern world, there's a real genuine fear of loss of individuality and I… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
In the modern world, there's a real genuine fear of loss of individuality, and I think the undead speak to that. I… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
“The little room was filled with American records and a phonograph. Izzy would let me stay back there and listen to them.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war.… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
“The vocation of psychotherapy confers a few unexpected fringe benefits on its practitioners, and the following is one of them. It impels… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“She’d thought Troy stank: the corpse piles, the fires, the fish guts thoughtfully left out for the gods—gee fucking thanks, guys, just… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of… — Francis Beauchesne Thornton Copy Share Image
Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodeled to be market-friendly. So now the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
The Met is such a powerful place for me because it's a natural connection between the ancient world and the modern world.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Since the birth of modern Orthodox Judaism in 19th-century Germany, a central goal of the movement has been to normalize the observance… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
“In religion and politics, on the contrary, though there is as yet nothing approaching scientific knowledge, everybody considers it de rigueur to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Not only do we mock the Eurovision Song Contest itself, but we lampoon other European countries for taking it so seriously, and… — Marcus Berkmann Copy Share Image
“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“OVER the past two hundred years the influence of intellectuals has grown steadily. Indeed, the rise of the secular intellectual has been… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“People saw psychopaths as aberrations, examples of something gone wrong in human programming, but Jake often thought that perhaps we had it… — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
