Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred… — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
One reason why people find applying the Bible to work so difficult is that the world of Scriptures seems so distant from… — David Kim Copy Share Image
Usually, when people think of marquetry, they think of Dutch 17th-century furniture with inlaid flowers and jugs. Our goal is to break… — David Linley Copy Share Image
Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
I go back and research, say, every reference to the Gorgons, and I find what the classical writers said about them and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno… — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
I have very little interest in the modern world, and I'm not in any way conflicted about that. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
“This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his… — Edward Anthony Spitzka Copy Share Image
Part of me wanted to disappear into a cave in India, and I did end up going on retreats there, but, don't… — Linus Roache Copy Share Image
You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern horror films are fun… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The trouble with a lot of modern theology and a lot of modern thinking about God, is that we think of God… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents.… — Margaret Sanger 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
Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips?… — Bill Simmons Copy Share Image
Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything! — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence,… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds. — Eqbal Ahmad Copy Share Image
