Modern World Quotes

217 quotes by 184 authors

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else. — Cate Blanchett
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in… — George Bernard Shaw
In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we can discharge our obligations to… — Marion G. Romney
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. — Ellen Glasgow
What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of… — Tony Robbins
The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world - and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism - are centered… — Pope Benedict XVI
Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is… — Eva Burrows
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is… — Anthony Kennedy
The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma. — Jean Danielou
The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared, but accepted and controlled. Radiation… — Ralph Lapp
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in… — Peter L. Berger
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. — William Ralph Inge
Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually elaborated… — Ralph Raico
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was… — Immanuel Wallerstein

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