Modern World Quotes - Page 13

• In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.

  John Buchan

  Heaven, World, Earth

  John Buchan (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Buchan (Illustrated)”, p.754, Delphi Classics

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• How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that "no" means "yes" if you know how to spot it? Let me tell you something. In this modern world, that is simply not tolerated. People aren't even gonna try to understand that one. I mean, it used to be said it was a cliche. It used to be part of the advice young boys were given.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Boys, People

  "Rush Limbaugh strikes back at DCCC". www.politico.com. September 17, 2014.

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• It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

  Alain de Botton

  Would Be, World, Ugly

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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• For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable, nowhere is it so clear and momentous as in the genesis of that power which constitutes the permanent distinctive force of the modern world, and the supreme source of its victory, natural science and the scientific spirit.

  Robert Briffault

  Islamic, Growth, Victory

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• The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society on a full use of the earth's resources; they did not aim to use the whole nature of man; they did not intend him to think out the full expression of his desires. Democracy is a turning point upon those ideals in a pursuit, at first unconsciously, of the richest life that men can devise for themselves.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Thinking, Expression

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• Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Effort, Intellectual, World

  Commonweal, Volume 58 (p. 557), 1953.

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• China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.

  Lin Yutang

  World, Facts, Modern

  Yutang Lin (1935). “The Little Critic: Essays, Satire and Sketches on China (second Series: 1933-1935)”

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• Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

  Robertson Davies

  Needs, World, Rich

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• The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Teaching, Thinking

  Robertson Davies (1993). “Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast”, p.8, Dundurn

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• Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic.

  Charles James Fox

  Powerful, Accomplishment, Wish

  Charles James Fox (1970). “Memorials and correspondence”

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• They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

  Edith Hamilton

  Discovery, Greek, World

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at the first possible moment, otherwise they corrupt us, they create new problems and make our future even more uncertain. That is more than morality; it's sense.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  War, World, Firsts

  Interview with James Cameron, Picture Post, October 28, 1950.

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• We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

  Tony Blair

  Liberty, World, Modern

  Valedictory Address to the Labour Party Conference, delivered 26 September 2006, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

  Vannevar Bush

  War, Team, Achievement

  United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush (1945). “Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President”, p.6

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• In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics, etc. These, among others - far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine - are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still.

  Jacques Ellul

  Taken, Mean, Civilization

  "The Presence of the Kingdom" by Jacques Ellul, translated by Olive Wyon, Seabury paperback, (p. 33), 1967.

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• The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.

  Benjamin Graham

  World, Modern, Goods

  "World Commodities and World Currencies". Book by Benjamin Graham. Chapter III, The Paradox of the Stockpile, p. 23, 1944.

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• Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  School, Years, Brain

  "Rebelling Within Nature". lesswrong.com. July 13, 2008.

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• Pure love is the best medicine for the modern world. This is what is lacking in all societies. The root cause of all problems, from personal problems to global problems is the absence of love. Love is the binding factor, the unifying factor. Love creates the feeling of oneness among people. It unifies a nation and its people. Love creates a sense of unity while hatred causes division. Egotism and hatred cuts people's minds into pieces. Love should rule. There is no problem which love cannot solve.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Cutting, Oneness

  Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 4”, p.239, M A Center

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• The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.

  Robert Gilpin

  Political, World, Modern

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.8, Princeton University Press

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• One reason for the primacy of the market in shaping the modern world is that it forces a reorganization of society in order to make the market work properly . When a market comes into existence, as Marx fully appreciated, it becomes a potent force driving social change.

  Robert Gilpin

  Order, Reorganization, World

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.19, Princeton University Press

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• Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Political, World

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.102, TAN Books

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• this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while the concrete forest of the modern world grows up around her.

  Mary McCarthy

  Growing Up, Lying, Sleep

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Support

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• On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves.

  George Carlin

  Food, Turkeys, Cooking

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Lines, Way, Needs

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. November 12, 2010.

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