The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall… — Frank Tipler Copy Share Image
Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world. — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I really think, without trying to give us credit that we don't deserve, I really feel like Kurt and Blaine are a… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely… — Esa-Pekka Salonen 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
The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The murder clearance rate now in my city Baltimore is almost non-existent. Nobody can solve a murder, nobody can do any actual… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modern international and interdenominational missionary structureEvery revival of religion in the… — J. Edwin Orr Copy Share Image
I guess you could say Alexander the Great was a man who completely transported me and moved me and inspired me because… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I think the legacy was set because the way George Mitchell was the leader enabled Tom Daschle to be the leader he… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope. — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses. — David Riesman Copy Share Image
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
If you don't I think very quickly in the modern climate you get left behind. Your ideas can become dated. — Eddie Howe Copy Share Image
Modern genetic engineering makes producing GMO food products relatively easy. GMOs can improve crop yield and greatly enhance the nutritional value of… — Richard J. Roberts Copy Share Image
As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities. — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
