For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that,… — Linus Roache Copy Share Image
Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am'… — Mark Davis Copy Share Image
History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Some psychological and sociological conditioning occurs in every man's life and this affects the decisions he makes. But we must resist the… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is. — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Classic burlesque in the style of Gypsy which many modern burlesque troupes practice is, at its core, so playful and teasing and… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
It's almost sickening now that the regulators 'on the beat' while the biggest credit collapse in modern financial history unfolded are now… — James Chanos 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
One of the things about the modern world is that the public and the private - which is not the same as… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
All of which suggested literary translation, and Korean seemed a good bet - barely anything available in English, yet it was a… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with 'Game of Thrones.' I love comedies - I really like '30 Rock' and 'Modern Family. — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Apparently modern financial regulators are vastly more sophisticated than we were as financial regulators 25 years ago - because we had never… — William K. Black Copy Share Image
In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
