Quotes of: Modern-civilization Keyword

Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.

David Miliband

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

Eva Zeisel

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

Chris Martin

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

Robert Casey

I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.

Roy Harper

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.

Guillermo del Toro

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

Marilyn vos Savant

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

Andrew Dominik

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

W.S. Merwin

The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And in losing its soul it will lose the very world it gained. Even our own so-called Liberal culture in these United States ...

Characters of the Passion: Lessons on Faith and Trust

Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar re...

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.

How Civilizations Die

Writing: It starts at the keyboard, and it ends at the far corners of the universe. --Paako

Constellation Chronicles: The Lost Civilization of Aries

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.

Siren's Lament and Other Stories

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

The Practice of the Wild: Essays

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

Larry Craig

After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.

Nick Nolte

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

Saxby Chambliss

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Paddy Ashdown

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.

Claude Nicollier

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

Anson Mount