Modern Age Quotes - Page 3

• It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Technology, Age, Modern

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• City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.

  Leon Trotsky

  New York, Philosophy, Expression

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• Wind is one of the greatest scams of the modern age.

  Robert Bryce

  Wind, Age, Scams

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• In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Important, Age, Modern

  "The global power shift". TED conference, www.ted.com. December 2011.

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• From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

  Saul Bellow

  Science, Age, Lines

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• The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

  Walter Lippmann

  Ambition, Men, Animal

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

  Pete Waterman

  Mind, Age, Majority

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• Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.

  Jane Smiley

  Assessment, Age, Fields

  Jane Smiley (1995). “Moo”, Knopf

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• The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire. . . . Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Spiritual, Land, Space Flight

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• It seems to me that we spend most of our spiritual energies trying to explain why the God of Elijah, Samson, David, and Paul seems to have lost His muscle in our modern age. Did He grow tired of performing heroics? Did He wax feeble after all these years of running this whole universal show? Could it be true that God has really lost His muscle? Maybe it would be more accurate to say God lost His men.

  Eric Ludy

  Running, Spiritual, Tired

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• In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.

  Jonathan Clements

  Age, Modern, Single Word

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• The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian roots, thereby becoming rootless itself.

  Walter Kasper

  Christian, Roots, Achievement

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

  Terry Eagleton

  Political, Age, Spheres

  "Milton's republic" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2008.

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