Modern Quotes · Page 165

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

The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they…

— Perry Brass

Barack Obama has come to divide, and he succeeded. This country has never been more divided. Well, throw out the Civil War,…

— Rush Limbaugh

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

— Albert Camus

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

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is…

— James Buchan

Speed is one of the great curses of modern civilization, obsession with speed leads to quantitative approach; we come to believe that…

— Satish Kumar

There is no longer a Christian mind ... the modern Christian has succumbed to secularization. He accepts religion - its morality, its…

— Harry Blamires

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

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

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills,…

— Eric Hoffer

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

One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

— Lawrence Lessig

My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress.…

— Kareena Kapoor

I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern…

— Mick Rock

The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization.…

— Abraham Lincoln

I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.

— George Bancroft

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

— Edward Abbey

This film [Doctor Strange] kind of takes that everyday boring reality and really bursts it wide. So we talked a lot about…

— Tilda Swinton

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

“The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense…

— Sara Sheridan

There is a certain ancient civility about tailors that is welcome - especially in modern London, which is now very much an…

— Graydon Carter

The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

— Ed Simons

In old times, not many keepers could play with their feet, but modern football requires those skills because it's changed.

— Ederson

Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew…

— Kevin Carson