By that point, I was about 12, 13 years old. I was this young black kid into rock music, which was kind… — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress. — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
[Photography] has become more and more subtle, more and more modern, and the result is that it is now incapable of photographing… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There are some designers who flash and burn - Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition. — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The modern world is about knowledge and it's our job as mums to help our daughters. — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Modern 'public health' initiatives have moved well beyond what could reasonably be classified as public goods. Today, government undertakes all sorts of… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image