Quotes of: Modern-war Keyword

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

In the end the war was Hitler's war. It was not perhaps the war he wanted. But it was the war he was prepared to risk if he had to. Nothing could deter him...He was no longer prepared to wait on events. He needed to force them to manipulate them to m...

How War Came

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

Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world — no longer laughing —...

Cecil B. DeMille

Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will ...

Monica Crowley

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

Nick Turse

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Ko...

William Safire

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

Dave Brubeck

Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

Patricia Schroeder

Let him who does not know what war is go to war.

Chinese

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