Quotes of: Modern-civilization Keyword

There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

while modernity is not Christianity, modernity is the product of a Christian civilization. Lately the defects of modernity have been made plain to us while its virtues have been taken for granted.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

John Buchan

The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization in whose bosom modernism first developed, against which it rebelled, and whose tenets it has ...

A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World

It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.

Yvette Clarke

While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil War fighting for the South, the modern-day Rangers were created to help rejuvenate a defeated and demoralized U.S. imper...

Brendan Sexton III

The incommensurability between the modern economic system and the people who staff it explains why modern workers have so often been depicted as 'cogs' in the larger 'machinery' of industrial civilization; for while the practical rationalization of e...

Way of the (Modern) World

To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.

Robert Shapiro

Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.

Drew Gilpin Faust

The invention of the mechanical clock was one of a number of major advances that turned Europe from a weak, peripheral, highly vulnerable outpost of Mediterranean civilization into a hegemonic aggressor.

Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Beyond the Post-Modern Mind: The Place of Meaning in a Global Civilization

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

Shereen El Feki

Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing the greatness that Muslims achieved in the past, or debating who first discovered the number zero, including the n...

Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

P. J. O'Rourke

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Thomas Carlyle

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

Franz Boas

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

Thor Heyerdahl

Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern.

Mohammed Morsi

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

Jill Lepore

If evolutionism were to be rejected, the whole structure upon which the modern world is based would collapse and one would have to accept the incredible wisdom of the Creator in the creation of the multiplicity of life forms which we see on the surfa...

A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised upon the apex of a never-extinct volcano of poor and...

Will Durant