Modern World Quotes

• Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

  Herman E. Daly

  Growth, World, Modern

  Herman E. Daly (2007). “Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development”, p.12, Edward Elgar Publishing

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• Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.

  Ben Goldacre

  Data, Pavement, Fabric

  "There's a wealth of data out there - why not let us use it?" by Ben Goldacre, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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• I don't think a monarchy led by 75- and 80-year-old men [Saudi Arabia] in today's modern world is really sustainable.

  Thomas Friedman

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Lonely, Loneliness, World

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need access to certain technologies, but the cost is far less than it used to be.

  Helen Mirren

  Technology, People, Becoming

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• Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a psychological space for ourselves. I apparently know some people who try to achieve this by logging off or going without their Twitter or Facebook for a limited period.

  Alan Moore

  Believe, Space, People

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• In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

  David Ogilvy

  Inspirational, Business, Creativity

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

  Thomas Paine

  Religious, Bipolar, Religion

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• Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

  Salman Rushdie

  Europe, England, World

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• Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Triumph, World

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.484, Routledge

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• If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

  Alexei Sayle

  America, President, Different

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• What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!

  Will Self

  Animal, Smartphones, Dumb

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• What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.

  Tony Robbins

  Communication, Quality, World

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

  Michael Scott

  Real, World, Modern

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.27, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

  Russell Baker

  Sunday, America, Political

  "The Morals Charge". The New York Times, May 14, 1974.

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• Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

  Russell Baker

  America, Humanity, Events

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• You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

  Charles A. Beard

  Life, Father, Struggle

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• Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

  Cate Blanchett

  Looks, World, Modern

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• Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Science, Errors, Long

  1905 Heretics, ch.13.

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• I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

  Cat Stevens

  Christian, Home, Luxury

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• Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Skills, America

  Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)

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• To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

  Anthony Burgess

  Solitude, World, Modern

  "But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1986.

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• The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

  Robert Penn Warren

  History, Damnation, World

  "Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Development". Book by Chris Maser, 1999.

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• The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world - and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism - are centered on the Word of God and, at the same time, draw therefrom their justification and support.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Stress, Support, Community

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• Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they are treated as independent disciplines, it seems valid. Actually, the are derivatives of a single origin and in the skillful employment of words and images lies the expressive potential of the medium.

  Will Eisner

  Lying, Communication, Independent

  Will Eisner (2008). “Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

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