Modern Quotes - Page 32

• In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.

  William James

  War, Eye, May

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.1281, Library of America

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• Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.

  William James

  War, Men, Glory

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.275, Routledge

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• The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

  Clarence Darrow

  Voice, Giving, Safe

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• I don't think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability that we're seeing right now. I think that was one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the modern history of the United States.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Iraq, Levels

  Source: www.complex.com

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• One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.

  David Brooks

  Frustration, Vocabulary, Sound

  "Ask the Author Live: David Brooks on the Composure Class". Live chat with readers, www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2011.

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• There's no scientific definition. A hymn... is a song of praise to God. I think there were three real goals with our hymns that made them seem more in line with traditional classical hymn writing than with the modern worship movement and differentiate us slightly...

  Keith Getty

  Song, Real, Writing

  "Composer/performer Keith Getty is celebrating an Irish Christmas at venues across the USA". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. December 5, 2014.

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• The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.

  Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh

  Reality, Economic, Theory

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• That's a hard one because right now it seems that all I'm watching is Teletoons and Nickelodeon. You know what I love? I love Criminal Minds. I love CSI. Those are my kind of shows. I also love Modern Family...MasterChef, I'm huge into that. I'm a big Gordon Ramsay fan...I don't get a whole lot of time to watch anything but, if I can, those are some of the ones that I do tend to watch.

  Teryl Rothery

  Csi, Modern Family, Mind

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It is often said that in today's modern and postmodern world that the forces of darkness are upon us.  But I think not; in the Dark and the Deep there are truths that can always heal.  It is not the forces of darkness but of shallowness that everywhere threaten the true, and the good, and the beautiful, and that ironically announce themselves as deep and profound.  It is an exuberant and fearess shallowness that everywhere is the modern danger, the modern threat, and that everywhere nonetheless calls to us as savior.

  Ken Wilber

  Beautiful, Dark, Thinking

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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• I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Thinking, May

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• In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

  Michael Crichton

  Ideas, World, Rigidity

  Michael Crichton's Remarks to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel

  John Gresham Machen

  Enemy, Culture, Force

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• That decision to use basically all white models, reveals a trait that is unbecoming to modern society. It can no longer be accepted...

  Bethann Hardison

  White, Decision, Use

  "Fashion Designers Accused Of Racism In Letter" by Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2013.

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• I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.

  Noam Chomsky

  Reading, Hebrew, Trouble

  Interview with David Samuels, chomsky.info. November 12, 2010.

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• I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

  Mark Twain

  Flower, Writing, Simple

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.65, Chartwell

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• The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value" is one of preference. In classical science it was supposed that the world always works in terms of absolute certainty and that "cause" is the more appropriate word to describe it. But in modern quantum physics all that is changed. Particles "prefer" to do what they do. An individual particle is not absolutely committed to one predictable behavior. What appears to be an absolute cause is just a very consistent pattern of preferences.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Differences, World, Patterns

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• Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

  Oscar Wilde

  Pessimism

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.439, Courier Dover Publications

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• The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.

  Austin O'Malley

  Kings, Useless, Quiet

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• What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture.

  Justin Broadrick

  Technology, Thinking, Luxury

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.

  Al Yankovic

  Rocks, Guitar, Appreciate

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that. The idea of marriages being arranged for love is some sort of modern idea, really.

  Jared Harris

  Love Is, Ideas, Business Deals

  Source: collider.com

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• For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Views, Wish

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.26, Lulu Press, Inc

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• [T]he shaman treats all realities as subjective, much like some modern theoretical physicists are beginning to do. In such a viewpoint the question of whether an experience is real or not makes no sense, because the answer is yes and no, depending on your point of view.

  Serge King

  Real, Views, Yes And No

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• Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

  Robert Lowell

  Attention, Poet, Formal

  Robert Lowell, Jeffrey Meyers (1988). “Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs”, p.52, University of Michigan Press

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• We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Simplicity, Fellow Man

  Yutang Lin (1962). “The pleasures of a nonconformist”

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