Quotes of: Modern-warfare 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

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

The Art of War

This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.

The Red Queen

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

Thomas E. Mann

With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.

Dustin Lynch

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

Fredrik Bajer

When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.

Frans de Waal

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

James Forrestal

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

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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