Our Modern Quotes

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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. — Alfred Adler
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century… — Geraldine Brooks
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront… — Ajahn Brahm
The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone… — Mahatma Gandhi
Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination of woman to… — Pope Benedict XVI
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and… — Laurens van der Post
With all the blessings our modern age has given to us, let us not give up the things that promote the workings of the Holy… — Neil L. Andersen
One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny fraction of the… — Michio Kaku
Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic… — Hugh Nibley
The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills… — Eric Rucker Eddison
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon… — Hamlin Garland
While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because the attempt to… — Aberjhani
Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in… — Richard Dawkins
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the… — Oscar Wilde
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and… — Edward Abbey
I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used… — Adam Duritz
To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure in the wilderness, knew strong crying, along with tears. Can… — Leonard Ravenhill
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an… — Walter Pater
Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't… — Bill Gates

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