Modern Quotes

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The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic… — H.G. Wells
Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it… — Pope Francis
The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics. — Emmeline Pankhurst
With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in… — Brian Setzer
I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital… — Jack White
Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man. — Stewart Udall
The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason. — Richard M. Weaver
The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing… — Richard M. Weaver
The typical modern has the look of the hunted. — Richard M. Weaver
To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars… — Sebastian Pinera
There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards. — George Augustus Henry Sala
I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I… — Colson Whitehead
The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary… — Noam Chomsky
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology. — Ludwig Feuerbach
I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in… — Theodor Herzl
Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth — Arthur Goldberg
This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not… — Jean Baudrillard
The problems of our day loom ominously before us. Surrounded by the sophistication of modern living, we look heavenward for that unfailing sense of direction,… — Thomas S. Monson
I think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and abuse, of intolerance… — Gordon B. Hinckley
In our learning, let us not neglect the fountain of revelation. The scriptures and the words of modern-day apostles and prophets are the sources of… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding… — Edward Smith
Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't… — Bill Gates
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize… — Gordon Brown
In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world. — Gordon Brown
People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If… — Nick Harkaway

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