Modern World Quotes - Page 2

• 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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  If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  America, Choices, Would Be

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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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• 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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• The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizens are subjected to state-sponsored religious exercises, the State disavows its own duty to guard and respect that sphere of inviolable conscience and belief which is the mark of a free people.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Religious, Exercise, People

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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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• The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Idols, Feet, World

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

  Cate Blanchett

  Looks, World, Modern

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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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• 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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• 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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• I don't care what the New York Times says about me, and no one I care about cares what the New York Times says about me.

  Jesse Helms

  New York, America, World

  Jesse Helms (2005). “Here's where I Stand: A Memoir”, p.64, Jesse Helms Center

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• You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist.
  But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!

  Humbert Wolfe

  Funny, Men, America

  The Uncelestial City (1930)

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• The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

  Jean Danielou

  Science, World, Way

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Education has two aspects; the first is related to external and worldly education, which is nothing but acquiring bookish knowledge. In the modern world, we find many well versed and highly qualified in this aspect. The second aspect known as Educare is related to human values. The word Educare means to bring out that which is within. Human values are latent in every human being; one cannot acquire them from outside. They have to be elicited from within. Educare means to bring out human values. 'To bring out' means to translate them into action.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mean, Two, World

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• The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, World, Demand

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