Modern Quotes

3241 Modern quotes by 2096 unique authors

Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in… — James W. Loewen
With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the… — Walter Lang
Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of… — Pentti Linkola
There are many strengths in modern society, but one of its weaknesses is the breakdown of many of the old structures and networks that supported… — Richard Holloway
The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is… — Paul MacCready
Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed-… — Susan Griffin
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at… — Albert J. Nock
A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are… — Herbert M. Shelton
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some… — Heinz Pagels
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found. — Berthold Auerbach
If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air. — William Halsey
Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another. — Sivananda
Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color… — Sydney J. Harris
The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone. — Alain de Botton
Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true,… — Elmer Kelton
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both… — Robert Motherwell
Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and… — Robert Johnson
Ben Hogan is the most merciless of all the modern golfers. — Gene Sarazen
Well-referenced, with numerous quotations from renowned Egyptologists and classical scholars, Acharya's penetrating research clearly lays out the very ancient pre-Christian basis of modern Christianity. Those… — Unknown Author
Jesus didn't just give hugs; He also gave a hammer. Paul didn't just pass on holy kisses; he also tirelessly dealt out swift and holy… — Eric Ludy
It seems to me that we spend most of our spiritual energies trying to explain why the God of Elijah, Samson, David, and Paul seems… — Eric Ludy
I absolutely am a big Call of Duty fan. Every time a new Call of Duty comes out – I never play the games online,… — Guillermo del Toro
I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine. — Zach Braff
Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved the indwelling spirit… — Michael Meade
America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it. — Ernest Gellner

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