18th century Quote by Charles Bukowski Download Open image “I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age” — Charles Bukowski ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare 18th century 20th century Age Century Character Grows Morality Space Tired
Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“By the eighteenth century many were showing all the negative conservatism of a vested interest overtaken by events: dogged devotion to old techniques, suspicion… — Timothy C.W. Blanning Copy Share Image
“takes us the farther distance from the Old World to something new and revolutionary in human thought. That moral center, however, is hard to… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
Such a great scientist, as Albert Einstein was, he could not prevent use of atomic weapons against the people, though he made an appeal to the President of US. It should be interesting to know, that Albert Einstein, who had studied and understood about the outer world, perhaps, more than anybody else in his times, had to observe, The most… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share
“Our way–the Western Way–has always been a "work in progress." Questions of life and death, good and evil, justice and tragedy–these are never definitively settled, but must be addressed again and again as personal and public worlds shift and change. We hold our morals to be absolutes, but the context of our actions and decisions is forever changing. We are… — Anne Rice Copy Share
Let's forget a little about the 19th century and start looking at the 21st century. — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Copy Share Image
“When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial social role.… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“There is a violent contrast here, in this country, between the growing abstractness of a unclear universe and a primary, visceral, unbounded vitality, in sex and bodies, as well as in work and in buying and selling. Deep down, the US, with its space , its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up… — Anonymous Copy Share
“What changed at the end of the eighteenth century, therefore, was not so much the discovery of a fundamentally new concept in human relations… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. A writer who has to go into the streets is… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“nerves twitching in the sheets -- to face the sunlight again, that's clearly trouble. I like the city better when the neon lights are… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Their Love Is Average, Seeks Average But There Is Genius In Their Hatred” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I climbed the stairway (there was no elevator) and put the key in. The door swung open. Somebody had changed all the furniture around,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone,I felt… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“And the differences thence arising [between the constitution of men and women] are no ways sufficient to argue more natural strength in the one… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that's the result of 400… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the highest wages… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
“If from immemorable time, the Men had been so little envious, and so very impartial, as to do justice to our talents, by admitting… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“I shou'd not myself have thought [Cato] worth so much notice as I have here taken of him; but that the Men are weak… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes,… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
"The Constitution" has something called The Emoluments Clause. That's just a fancy, 18th century word for no foreign government payments. And Donald Trump is… — Norman L. Eisen Copy Share Image
The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. — William Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
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