Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The so-called modern conveniences may, in fact, be extremely inconvenient - everything seems to exist as a distraction from any sort of… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw… — Robert Pape Copy Share Image
One might almost say, to adapt von Clausewitz, that modern warfare is PR by other means. And war-winning strategies mean that modern… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid. — Jose Arguelles Copy Share Image
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments. — William Sargant Copy Share Image
The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions.… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
I go straight for Seinfeld, Modern Family, Friends, and Golden Girls. Those are my pillars of strength on TV. — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Toothbrush mustache was first introduced in Germany by Americans, who turned up with it at the end of the 19th century… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
