Best Modern World Quotations
217 Modern World quotes by 178 unique authors
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In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one…
— Margaret Mead
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
— Ai Weiwei
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By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to faithfulness, we have…
— Os Guinness
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The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to…
— Thomas Keating
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A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive…
— Alasdair MacIntyre
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The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.
— Bill Gaede
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All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a long circle…
— Paul Shepard
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If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a dazzling experience -…
— François Lelord
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The truth for women living in a modern world is that they must take increasing responsibility for the skills they bring into birth if they…
— Michel Odent
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[The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth;…
— Ronald Reagan
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Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.
— Patience Strong
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I much prefer the modern world.
— Keith Henson
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Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.
— Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn
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You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace…
— Chris Cooper
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Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us…
— John Stott
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Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the…
— Woodrow Wilson
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The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful…
— Swami Vivekananda
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To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.
— C.S. Lewis
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The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of…
— John Stott
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As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way…
— Sam Brownback
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Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.
— Tom G. Palmer
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I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for…
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with…
— John Stott
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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
— John Betjeman
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