“News invented the modern world as much as the modern world invented news. Finding out what was going on elsewhere in the… — Lawrence Kleep Copy Share Image
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
In this modern world, where we have filters to make us look as nice as possible, it's good to take off the… — Aisling Bea 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
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 profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate ‘residues’ of the ancient… — René Guénon Copy Share Image
In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
The Kirtaniyas are in the new wave of younger Kirtan artists bringing the divine practice of Bhakti from the ancient to the… — Jai Uttal Copy Share Image
“Some may wonder whether part of the harvest of this invisible pollution (electromagnetic radiation) may be the comparative rarity of visionary experience… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable,… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
We must treat access to the Internet similar to the way we treat access to all of our utilities because in the… — Ned Lamont Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
One of the things about the modern world is that the public and the private - which is not the same as… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen… — John G. D. Clark Copy Share Image
The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“(Golden Globe acceptance speech in the style of Jane Austen's letters ): "Four A.M. Having just returned from an evening at the… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The beauty and the tragedy of the modern world is that it eliminates many situations that require people to demonstrate a commitment… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“The basic trouble with the modern world … is the intellectual fallacy that freedom and compulsion are opposites. To solve the gigantic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“ What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, we live in an era where once a person learns a bit of the Arabic language and memorizes the translation of… — Shaykh Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi Copy Share Image
Pure love is the best medicine for the modern world. This is what is lacking in all societies. The root cause of… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“Pomeranz, K. (2000) The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.” — Jane Pollard Copy Share Image
“That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the problems of our modern world is that there's a lot of things to work through, but, at some point,… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
“For tolerance (and you must remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no… — Humbert Wolfe Copy Share Image
In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy… — Vladimir Putin 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
The modern world is very wealthy, it's full of options. It's not like "This is the land I was born on and… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that… — Pankaj Mishra 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
You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
