Best Modern World Quotes
217 Modern World quotes by 178 unique authors
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...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
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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
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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
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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
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In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.
— Jason Clarke
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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
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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
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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
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A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is
— Unknown Author
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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
— Edward Abbey
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
— Edward Abbey
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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
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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
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The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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The Soviet Union is the focus of evil in the modern world.
— Ronald Reagan
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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
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Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.
— John Derbyshire
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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