The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
“The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often; books don't” — Emma Iadanza Copy Share Image
“Fond of bewailing the decadence of the modern world, of denouncing the younger generation for its lack of idealism and public spirit,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be young, beautiful and rich. I don't say that scornfully: there are worse things to want to be. But… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
“One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. If you stop to think about it for a few minutes, you can’t help… — Ed Robinson Copy Share Image
“How, in our modern world, can we find our way to understand the earth as a gift again, to make our relations… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“It seems that in our twenty-first century modern world, many women have become estranged from their primal brain and the knowledge that… — Maha Al Musa Copy Share Image
“But what does America have to do with ancient Israel? Israel was unique among nations in that it was conceived and dedicated… — Jonathan Cahn Copy Share Image
The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma. — Jean Danielou Copy Share Image
“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Pandemics have long been among my favorite topics to teach sociology with, not because the subject is cheery, but because they contain… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Many people don't know that you don't spend 10 minutes without using a satellite. Or that agriculture is managed from space. Banking,… — David Saint-Jacques Copy Share Image
Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodeled to be market-friendly. So now the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
The divide between me and the modern world is growing further because I to a larger degree manage to rid myself of… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“It may be that considerations of justice are a central element of ethical thought that transcends the relativism of distance. Perhaps this,… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
After World War II, defending America in the modern world required new intelligence agencies, the unification of the armed services under a… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
