Quotes of: Modern-history Keyword

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

Bear Grylls

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Ellen Glasgow

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

David Guterson

There's an interesting mix to 'Robin Hood' because it's kind of modern but medieval. There is a blend of adventure with a very modern feel.

Joanne Froggatt

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

Denis Leary

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Albert Einstein

Hobbes's analysis of the causes of violence, borne out by modern data on crime and war, shows that violence is not a primitive, irrational urge, nor is it a "pathology" except in the metaphorical sense of a condition that everyone would like to elimi...

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

A world without glass would strike at the foundation of modern progress: the extended lifespans that come from understanding the cell, the virus, and the bacterium; the genetic knowledge of what makes us human; the astronomer's knowledge of our place...

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

The Stetson passage is an allusion to Frazer theory in The Golden Bough that religion originated as agricultural engineering. Through a grotesque process of literalization, all of the dying gods and heroes in The Golden Bough, along with Christ and t...

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation

The conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation save us from infectious diseases that ravaged pre-agricultural people (something we hea...

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history itself, nor even the lessons of history, but why history matters. How to ignite the first spark of the will o'the wisp, the Jack o'lantern, the ignis...

Making History

The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.

Kirk Cameron

The history of skiing is important to me.

Lindsey Vonn

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.

Peter O'Toole

Read. You can always talk with another reader.

Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior

If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.

Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

Henry A. Wallace

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

Banksy

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

David Rockefeller

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Thom Mayne

The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times