Our Time Quotes - Page 38

• Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Sublime, Republic, West

  James Kenneth Stephen (1909). “Lapsus Calami and Other Verses”

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• Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

  Hal Rothman

  Running, Self, Ethos

  Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.12, Routledge

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• Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never judged, never treated a single person with contempt. Christ talked to everybody, he mingled with everybody, he shared his message with everybody, and he also loved everybody. So don't count the cost with anybody either. We don't waste our time with people who don't want what we have to offer. But if they do, one form of martyrdom is to give a listening ear or an understanding smile to all comers.

  Heather King

  Listening Ear, Names, People

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• The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

  W. H. Auden

  Men, World, Action

  'The Dyer's Hand' (1963) 'The Poet and the City'

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• Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of our time. Just as the sound money policy of gold standard advocates went hand in hand with liberalism, free trade, capitalism and peace, so is inflationism part and parcel of imperialism, militarism, protectionism, statism and socialism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophical, Hands, Ideas

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

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• In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.

  George Orwell

  Party, Writing, Squares

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell and Politics”, p.459, Penguin UK

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• I saw "Forrest Gump" several times. I personally thought it was Tom Hanks' greatest role and I think it was one of the most eloquent love stories of our time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Stories, Saws

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• The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Philosophy, Dust

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen”, p.38, Faber & Faber

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• In our time, in particular, there exists another form of ownership which is becoming no less important than land: the possession of know-how, technology and skill. The wealth of the industrialized nations is based much more on this kind of ownership than on natural resources.

  Pope John Paul II

  Wisdom, Technology, Land

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• In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic economic dictatorship is consolidated in the hands of a few, who often are not owners but only the trustees and managing directors of invested funds which they administer according to their own arbitrary will and pleasure. This dictatorship is being most forcibly exercised by those who, since they hold the money and completely control it, control credit also and rule the lending of money.

  Pope Pius XI

  Hands, Credit, Politics

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• The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or wretchedness.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Wisdom, Men, Principles

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.412

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• The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  Ambition, Men, Thinking

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• I loved Jordan. He was one of the greatest athletes of our time.

  Mariah Carey

  Funny, Athlete, Jordan

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• The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Atheism, Demand, Patterns

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• The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Teacher, Jesus, Believe

  "The Quest of the Historical Jesus". Book by Albert Schweitzer, transl. by W. Montgomery, 1906.

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• The diversity of life on Earth, generally, is astonishing. But despite those large numbers, it's also important to recognize that every species, one way or another, is vulnerable to extinction. And in our time on Earth... our impact on the diversity of life has been profound.

  Sylvia Earle

  Impact, Numbers, Profound

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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• Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.

  Kevin Spacey

  Powerful, Communication, Skills

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• We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.

  Howard Zinn

  Brutality, Transfers

  Howard Zinn (2011). “Howard Zinn on History”, p.221, Seven Stories Press

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• We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.

  Wendell Berry

  Abuse, Energy, Fuel

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.20, Counterpoint

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• As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.

  Dan John

  Pills, Doers, Wallets

  Dan John (2009). “Never Let Go”, p.266, On Target Publications

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• In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Book, Adults

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• Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and efficiently manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing economic and personal conditions of our time.

  Lee Johnson

  Retirement, Successful, Identity

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• Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

  Wes Moore

  Single Mom, Important, Shapes

  Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.133, Spiegel & Grau

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• There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.

  Anais Nin

  Suffering, Doe, Neurosis

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• Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Men, Demand

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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