Modern Age Quotes

43 quotes by 40 authors

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for… — Benazir Bhutto
The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy… — Hannah Arendt
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing… — Lionel Trilling
We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and… — John F. Kennedy
With all the blessings our modern age has given to us, let us not give up the things that promote the workings of the Holy… — Neil L. Andersen
Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern… — George F. Kennan
The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to… — Seneca the Younger
If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend… — Hannah Arendt
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. — Larry Wall
The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs. — Harold Innis
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me… — Leon Trotsky
In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself. — Jonathan Clements
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
In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with… — Paddy Ashdown
The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve… — Buzz Aldrin
Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was… — Jane Smiley
Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have… — Pete Waterman
The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere… — Walter Lippmann
From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. — Saul Bellow
I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age — Kailash Satyarthi

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