Quotes of: Modern-civilization Keyword

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

Jay Weatherill

If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights.

David Blunkett

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

Morgan Freeman

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

Herbert Read

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

Pope Benedict XVI

In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I just don't buy that.

Deval Patrick

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

Anthony Minghella

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

Andrew Taylor Still

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

Justin Sane

This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find; The man who does not hesitate to criticize the other, although he behaves in the same way;

The Modern Man: A philosophical divagation about the evil banality of daily acts

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

The Great War and Modern Memory

The first key to leadership is self-control.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.

Robert Gottlieb

Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching

The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

A Harvey Nicks chick with throwaway morals and a trustfund appetite.

Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

A Modern Utopia

when science has killed god, science will be god.

The Red Pill: A Modern Tao Te Ching

In these modern times, the only sensible thing to be is nonsensical.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Even in woo woo circles, shamanism is the fringe of the fringe.

Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Robert Scheer