Best Modern World Quotes

217 Modern World quotes by 178 unique authors

...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The… — Woodrow Wilson
Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced . . .… — Carlton J. H. Hayes
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a… — Malcolm Muggeridge
But we live in a modern world, you know, and, and also it does seem to me that if you - that whatever talents you… — Tim Curry
In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery. — Jason Clarke
Recently I stood in the desert, far out side of L. A., and watched the sun set on a circus tent from 1930. Every where… — Robert Pattinson
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French and… — Orlando Figes
When I design a collection I strive to make a woman feel as special as the delicate creation she is wearing; take her to an… — Unknown Author
A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is — Unknown Author
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be. — Edward Abbey
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. — Edward Abbey
Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must… — Winston Churchill
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be… — John Berger
The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the… — Alfred North Whitehead
The Soviet Union is the focus of evil in the modern world. — Ronald Reagan
There is no other airport in the world which serves so many people and so many airplanes. This is an extraordinary airport. . . it… — John F. Kennedy
Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always. — John Derbyshire
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal… — Herbert Butterfield
Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Education has two aspects; the first is related to external and worldly education, which is nothing but acquiring bookish knowledge. In the modern world, we… — Sathya Sai Baba
In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was… — Robert Aickman
But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer… — Hilaire Belloc
The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism,… — E F Schumacher
I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of… — Elwyn Brooks White

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