Quotes of: Modern-warfare Keyword

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

John Boyd Orr

I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody.

Elizabeth Warren

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

Constance Baker Motley

If my God damns people for love but saves them for brutle warfare, then that is not the God I know or wish to worship.

Cristina Marrero

You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.

John McCain

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

Dee Dee Myers

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

Nelson A. Miles

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Why write wrong if the writing won’t right the wrong? (90)

Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve

[P]ower is at its most potent when it can operate silently.

Early Modern England: A Social History 1550 1760

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.

John Gresham Machen

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Diane Wakoski

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Edward Hopper

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

Jackson Pollock

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

Larry Ellison

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Milan Kundera

To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.

The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy

History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.

Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan