Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill. — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Inside the glittery, swanky cases-the 'modern art' materials that were all the rage at the time, Formica and glass and plastic-was something… — Paul Thek Copy Share Image
If you look on the Republican side, the two Republicans who have most energized young people in modern times are Ronald Reagan… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a… — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
The modern era of feminism is how you track that at its beginning. It manifested itself in crazy ways. Parents would try… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of… — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We [Christians] have the dilemma of using a symbol system that was not made for our worldview, to give our worldview... I… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization. — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His… — Anil Ambani 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
Barack Obama has come to divide, and he succeeded. This country has never been more divided. Well, throw out the Civil War,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Speed is one of the great curses of modern civilization, obsession with speed leads to quantitative approach; we come to believe that… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
There is no longer a Christian mind ... the modern Christian has succumbed to secularization. He accepts religion - its morality, its… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Certainly a big challenge for me with evening-wear is to make it look modern and artistic and avant-garde. The very concept of… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress.… — Kareena Kapoor Copy Share Image
I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern… — Mick Rock Copy Share Image
The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood. — Edward Abbey 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
Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image