Quotes of: Modern-civilization Keyword

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Norman Ralph Augustine

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

Cate Blanchett

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

Jose Andres Puerta

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

Clint Eastwood

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Modern Society has turned blind; considering patience as cowardliness.

Srinivas Shenoy

One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.

A Terrible Beauty: The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind: A History

If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but constructs of imagination - it is also its business to encourage politics to remake itself by remaking its image...

Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-Modern

I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound lik...

Mayim Bialik

What makes a civilization real to its inhabitants, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at it centre, nor even the smooth functioning of the institutions they house. At its core, a civilization is the texts that are taught in its schools, le...

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

Civilization on Earth planet was equated with selfishness and greed; those people who lived in a civilized state exploited those who did not. There were shortages of vital commodities on Earth planet, and the people in the civilized nations were able...

The Inverted World

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive f...

Parable of the Sower

Diversity, not uniformity, is what works.

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

I AM NOT UR BESTFRND BUT I'M UR GOODFRND..

Understand Roman Civilization a Teach Yourself Guide

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

George McGovern

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.

Paul Weller

Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.

Muhtar Kent

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

Theresa May

I believe health care is a civil right.

Dennis Kucinich

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

Elijah Cummings