Ancient Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern. Well, okay . . . maybe medieval.”

— Roberta Pearce

“It may be that what we call modern is nothing, but what is not worthy of remaining to become old.”

— Dante Alighieri

“There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.”

— Bryant McGill

“Modern society becomes more and more complex by the day. What used to be traditional isn’t necessarily traditional anymore.”

— Fadi Hattendorf

“They're all inside of us,...past people and present people. And probably even the people we'll become.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

“The judgiest people are the ones who’ve lived the least.”

— Kresley Cole

“The more I study history the more I realize how little mankind has changed. There are no new scripts, just different actors.”

— Richard Paul Evans

“Throughout history, while day-to-day life has changed, humanity hasn't.”

— Rachel Harris

“Man has been slipping backward for ages. The more advanced we became the more primitive we grew.”

— Jennifer Ott

“Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society.”

— Steven Pinker

“Sometimes people are abundant not in their actions but who they truly are.”

— Debasish Mridha

“It was supposed to be people who died and cultures that lasted. Now it was the other way around. Something”

— Hugh Howey