Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk. — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Presidents in the modern era who've had significant assets have usually put those into a blind trust with some kind of independent… — Rachel Martin Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us. — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
Sincerity is all that counts. It's a widespread modern heresy. Think again. Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People… — Tom Driberg Copy Share Image
As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We are creatures. We have a link with a native habitat just like every other species. Throughout most of human history, physical… — David Katz Copy Share Image
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence.… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I think we as people struggle for what is meaningful in our lives, and I think that modern, contemporary life is as… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The old-fashioned idea of a good manager is one who is supposed to know all the answers, can solve every problem himself,… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite. — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes. — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It's understandable why someone would like their entertainment to provide an escape from modern day worries and the reality of war. We… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
