“With the advent of the “modern” world some twenty-five hundred years ago (and for whatever reason), these sacrificial systems were threatened and… — Sandor Goodhart Copy Share Image
“Our late modern world prides itself on recognising, for the first time in history, the basic equality of all humans, yet it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“In the struggle for power, or simply economic survival in the modern world, many women who have children find that they must… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But where will this mania for entertainment end? What will people do when they get tired of television? When they get tired… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Epic: A Journey Through Church History fills an urgent need for adult Catholics to recover their history as a believing community, debunk… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
Try to cultivate hope in whatever way you can, and don't think that's fanciful or some sort of ridiculous notion that has… — Fearne Cotton Copy Share Image
The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“If your hunter-gatherer buddies suddenly bolted, it made sense to follow suit—regardless of whether a saber-toothed tiger or a boar had startled… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This… — Eva Burrows Copy Share Image
“The modern world is drowning in information. We have more data than we can possibly use regarding nearly every picayune matter of… — Jeffrey A. Lockwood Copy Share Image
Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world. But not… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
“instead.” “Do you really have to curse so much? And are you serious when you use terms like hit the pavement? This… — T.R. Ragan Copy Share Image
“The idea of specific populations predisposed to obesity is encapsulated in a notion now known as the thrifty gene—technically, the thrifty-genotype hypothesis—that… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell. — Ed Weeks Copy Share Image
“Due partly to the influence of the Genevan Academy and partly to the Institutes, Calvin’s theological influence was soon felt in various… — Justo L. González Copy Share Image
“Yasunari Kawabata, the Japanese Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1968, committed suicide in 1971. Two years earlier, in 1969, another great… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
