Contemporary Quotes

644 Contemporary quotes by 549 unique authors

History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It's not neutral. I would be very surprised if people with… — Ken Loach
All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by… — Heinrich Heine
The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of… — Thomas Sowell
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the… — C L R James
I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance,… — Leonard Baskin
One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of… — George Washington
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date… — Lion Feuchtwanger
It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history without contemporary significance.… — Felix S. Cohen
Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art. — Tom Stoppard
Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time… — David Dinkins
Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture. — Billy Graham
So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they… — Francine Prose
Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect… — Murong Xuecun
People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and their frustrations. — Jack Lemmon
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book — Bob Geldof
History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow… — Philibert Joseph Roux
In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever… — George Bernard Shaw
If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks… — Eckhart Tolle
All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it? — David Hockney
I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off. — Robert Helpmann
I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain… — David Bowie
The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This… — George Will
A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their… — Dallas Willard
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example, ideal transformations of… — Van Day Truex
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ. — Dallas Willard

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