Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source.… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money. — Joe Goddard Copy Share Image
Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Free trade has been one of the tenets of the modern Mexican economy, and it's through competition and free trade that we… — Ricardo Salinas Pliego Copy Share Image
Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mass adoption of renewable energies would thus necessitate a fundamental reshaping of modern energy infrastructures. — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from,… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important… — Edward Weston 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
A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
Voltaire's novel [Candid] offers us parallel universes, the possibility of entering into alternative worlds existing side by side, and this is something… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
People even split up by text message, they dump each other by text. Everything seems so disposable, so throwaway, but you have… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now… — Kathryn Flett Copy Share Image
There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of… — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water. — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you… — Gabriel Kolko Copy Share Image
I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness. — George Will Copy Share Image
Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel,… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. — John Berger Copy Share Image
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