Quotes of: Modern-history Keyword

Modernization, socialization, and progression doesn’t alter nor permit discarding the morals and the laws one should abide themselves too.

The Ellison Effect

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially

Elements of the Philosophy of Right

In the modern food landscape, the Krafts, Monsantos, and Archer Daniels Midlands are standing in the way of food democracy.

Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.

False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it.

The Four Loves

The great danger of law in modern student affairs practice is apathy, acceptance, and blind disobedience.

Foundations of Higher Education Law and Policy

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations.

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

Cloud Atlas

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

Alex Campbell

Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

Norman Lamm

We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.

Bernard Werber

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

Charles Frazier

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Johnny Ball

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

Chaim Potok

It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.

Christian Slater

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

John Baldacci