Quotes of: Modern-warfare Keyword

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.

Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism

Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18)

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

What is important is not the specific manner in which God is worshiped but the degree to which the devotee is filled with love. (48-49)

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

Attempting to contain the infinite within finite symbolism of language may result in scholarship, but it will not produce devotion. (110)

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds. (91)

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the designs most emblematic of the Modern Movement.

Martin Filler

I love 'Modern Family; I think that is a great show. I don't get to watch tons of TV, but when I do, 'Sons of Anarchy' is pretty much the number one, and 'Modern Family' is one of my favorites.

Ashley Tisdale

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure princi...

Ronald Fisher

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.

Peter L. Berger

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

Erwin Rommel

The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

Youssou N'Dour

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare

Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128

The Goldfinch

I would like to write a suicide note in three and a half languages and travel south on a Thursday towards some form of life outside of earth

Amigo Warfare

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with t...

Nelson Mandela

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

Meditations

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

Mankind Evolving: The Evolution of the Human Species

Love is trench warfare. So stand aside, and let me keep digging.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.

Making Life a Prayer: Selected Writings

Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.

Steven Pinker