The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into… — James May Copy Share Image
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
For most humans, especially for those in modern urban and suburban communities, the most direct form of contact with nonhuman animals is… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There are some things I don't like, about which I think, well, that's me. But coriander is a giant hoax perpetrated by… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Our modern world-view tragically misperceives and wrongly defines what it is to be human. We are conditioned by our society to believe… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life. — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
Go walk the streets of Beijing. It's pretty hard to argue it isn't a modern city. Now, if you go outside [of… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Under Obama's intentional neglect, the most barbaric force in modern history - the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) - has… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know? — Noah Emmerich Copy Share Image
I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man. — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
“Modern architecture has the potential to send you to an early grave.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image