We lack rituals in this modern world.
I'm not good at the modern world.
More modern poetry is written than read.
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
Toddlers are germ-warfare machines in a cute package" - Debora Geary
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
The only meaningful statistic in warfare is when the other side quits.
If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.
If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.
But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.
Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf.
Certainly, a clear line must be preserved by strict discipline, and on the other hand the men must know that everything is done for them that hard times permit. On the top of that it follows that, among real men, what counts is deeds, not words; and ...
...there is much more to matter than modern science currently would like to acknowledge. By developing insights about the observer, we can describe matter in a new way.
If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an ethical duty to decide between what is better and what is worse.
Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For one thing, Aristotle and Aquinas never watched television.
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid ...
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.
I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
