Quotes of: Modern-civilization Keyword

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Ezra Pound

Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.

Susan Orlean

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

Bill Watterson

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

Patricia Hewitt

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

Alfred North Whitehead

Here are five rules of thumb, should all your fingers on one hand turn into thumbs and you decide to rule them. 1. There is no day too dull, no problem too great that cannot be fixed with a couple of plays of 'rush rush' by Paula Abdul. 2. The amount...

Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies

I am a degenerate modern semi-intellectual who would die if I did not get my early morning cup of tea and my every Friday. Clearly I do not, in a sense, 'want' to return to a simpler, harder, probably agricultural way of life. In the same sense I don...

The Road to Wigan Pier

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most imp...

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the gene...

Jill Lepore

Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge of the history of the human race; for it is remarkable that no transcript of them has ever been made into any mode...

Henry David Thoreau

Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts, but as a whole, each portion of which throws light on all the other, and that the tendency of all is to improv...

Joseph Henry

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins.

A Civil Campaign

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

Civilization and Its Discontents

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.

Gone

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.

Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others.

Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

To America with Love

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

Knowledge And Decisions