Best Modern World Sayings

217 Modern World quotes by 178 unique authors

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world. — Walter Mosley
You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy… — Patricia Hewitt
The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where self-doubt is minimal,… — Chris Hedges
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his… — Eugene H. Peterson
There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a… — Joe Strummer
Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of… — Havelock Ellis
The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things you need to know about so-and-so;… — Roger Cohen
But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating,… — Julius Evola
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still… — Jared Diamond
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft… — Charles Frazier
Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering… — Cecil B. DeMille
The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able to tolerate ambiguity… — Robert J. Havighurst
Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings, are living in a… — Gerald Holton
The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world. — David Berlinski
The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money… — Nevil Shute
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
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
We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness, the advances made… — Rob Delaney
It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what… — Prince Charles
The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has see the defenselessness… — C.S. Lewis

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