Destructive Quote by John Crowe Ransom Download Open image “But we moderns are impatient and destructive.” — John Crowe Ransom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Destructive Impatient
We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Modernity has created more problems than it is capable of solving. Millions of people are now condemned to wait endlessly for their redemption through… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present. — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
We have to dare to modernize to get room to maneuver for the priorities in the future. — Erna Solberg Copy Share Image
To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from. — Sylvain Tesson Copy Share Image
The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Tell this to ladies: how a hero man Assail a thick and scandalous giant Who casts true shadow in the sun, And die, but… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time Till… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Do not enforce the tired wolf Dragging his infected wound homeward To sit tonight with the warm children Naming the pretty kings of France. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The imageis in the… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
I would not knock old fellows in the dust But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back His weapons were the old heart in… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
'The Hunger Games' takes place in Panem, a country which is part of America. It's post-apocalyptic. There's been a global war. The Panem country… — Liam Hemsworth Copy Share Image
People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
One of the most destructive mistakes we Christians make is to prioritize shared beliefs over shared relationship, which is deeply ironic considering we worship… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
I think that, honestly, people's censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others make. You… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
A label is a soul-tattoo that is ingrained deep in our hearts, so much so that it determines how we see ourselves, And how… — Derwin L. Gray Copy Share Image
