The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The modern world is about knowledge and it's our job as mums to help our daughters. — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know? — Noah Emmerich Copy Share Image
Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world. — Pete Townshend 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
I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
“Although we, as Christians, are living in Sodom, we are not to become citizens of Sodom. . The story of Sodom is… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“He was the first of the true Anastatosantes of the modern world, as only an English-speaking man could be—of the most thorough,… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“Irish demographics reveal two startling facts: There are around 70 million people worldwide who claim Irish descent, and Ireland today has barely… — Ryan Hackney 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
“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
Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced… — Carlton J. H. Hayes Copy Share Image
The way to maximize production is to maximize the incentives to production. And the way to do that, as the modern world… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Everybody on this island has one ambition, which may be summed up very simply. It is to do something, however small it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Recently I stood in the desert, far out side of L. A., and watched the sun set on a circus tent from… — Robert Pattinson 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
“What does it mean to demonstrate in the streets, what is the significance of that collective activity so symptomatic of the twentieth… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“The test of character posed by the gentleness of God's approach to us is especially dangerous for those formed by the ideas… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“That Hitchens represents a grievous loss to the left is beyond doubt. He is a superb writer, superior in wit and elegance… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“It's a funny thing about the modern world. You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, "Yeah, he fucked off and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Mustapha Mond paused, put down the first book and, picking up the other, turned over the pages. “Take this, for example,” he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Who knows what hellish future lies ahead? … Actually, I do. I've seen the rehearsals, — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union is an Evil Empire, and Soviet communism is the focus of evil in the modern world — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb” — John Shirley Copy Share Image
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