If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Bringing back stamp collecting and bringing back bridge seems like a pretty good way to fight the modern world. — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
“The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as because it cannot recover the normal.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I was out there for 12 days. There are more beggars in Soho than there are in Kabul. — Neil Morrissey Copy Share Image
“we in the modern world expect that tomorrow will be better than today.” — James Burke Copy Share Image
It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy… — Michael Bywater Copy Share Image
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
What is the pattern of worship that best conveys the richness of divine grace, faithfully interprets the gospel in our modern world… — Geoffrey W Bromiley Copy Share Image
Ronad Reagan might go down to history as a man who in the end of this administration brought about the first nuclear… — Helmut Schmidt Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a secret—not really, not in the modern world, not with photography and telegraphy and railways and… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“While the stoning of children for heresy has fallen out of fashion in our country, you will not hear a moderate Christian… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When we, for example, see shifts of huge production lines from certain areas to other countries, people tend to ask the question,… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“to study the ambitions and appetites of a family launched upon the modern world, making superhuman efforts but always failing because of… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering… — Margaret MacMillan 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
I have a guy friend who said to me, "Hey, you know it's strange, feminism is cool now." I think now people… — Abigail Tarttelin Copy Share Image
I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence.… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Secularized young men eagerly entering the modern world with their shorn beards found it in practice frustratingly obdurate and alienating: ‘the kingdom… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“We must change life,' the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did not deliver Himself, we… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Our children are exposed to 10, 20, 30 times the number of words that our great-grandfathers were exposed to. We're exposed in… — Steven C. Hayes 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
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them. — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
“People aren't crazy, they’re just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image