Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice. — Clarence Darrow 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
Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy… — Yul Brynner Copy Share Image
Real Men no longer drive Corvettes. Despite being able to squander gas with the best of them, even today's least enlightened Real… — Bruce Feirstein Copy Share Image
I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I'll take, objecting to the stigmatization… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority,… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
“I view the modern workplace as somewhere that you go to have your long term health severely damaged.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In this modern day and age, we have instant coffee, instant tea - instant disbelief. That's the reason we will never become… — Glenn Turner Copy Share Image
These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is an important priority for me to make sure veterans are taken care of and that they receive the same quality… — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
Well, he keeps saying that, and as defense secretary, of course he has to think of a lot of potential enemies. I… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel ashamed at my lack of interest in all the new techniques of modern filmmaking, but I prefer to work… — Sven Nykvist 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
If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education. — Julius Genachowski Copy Share Image
We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity.… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters. — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
