Quotes of: Modern-civilization Keyword

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

Arthur Goldberg

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

Andrew Lo

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

Jane Campion

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Wally Lamb

The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.

George Osborne

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

Harriet Harman

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

Fahrenheit 451

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Foundation's Edge

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

Simon Raven

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.

Alva Myrdal

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

James Henry Breasted

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

Geoffrey Fisher

We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.

Diane Paulus

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

Anna Karenina

It ain't technology that enhances the civilization.. but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints.

Master of Stupidity

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

The Light Between Oceans

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

Père Goriot

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

Herbert V. Prochnow