Modern Times Quotes - Page 5

• The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.

  Janet Flanner

  Facts, Wreckage, Defeat

  Janet Flanner (1966). “Paris Journal: 1944-1965”

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• Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough, in modern times at least, to make a revolution. The cooperation of a majority, and a large majority too, is needed.

  Jean Jaures

  Intelligent, Majority, Minorities

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• We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

  George Washington

  Government, Perfection, Progress

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: pt.III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789. 1835”, p.318

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• The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Punishment, Mexican

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.45, Modern Library

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• We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

  Eqbal Ahmad

  Mind, World, Medieval

  Eqbal Ahmad, David Barsamian (2017). “Confronting Empire”, p.87, Haymarket Books

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• Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites, whose lives are filled qith cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. And so, the schools, the churches, the popular literature taught that to be rich was a sign of superiority, to be poor a sign of personal failure, and that the only way upward for a poor person was to climb into the ranks of the rich by extraordinary effort and extraordinary luck.

  Howard Zinn

  School, Cities, Law

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• Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ?

  Dale Bumpers

  Jobs, Military, Years

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• All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Jesus, Desert, Modern

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• Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

  William E. Gladstone

  Work, Political, Letters

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• By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.

  Bryan Sykes

  Grandmother, Dna, Details

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• I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, p.5, Basic Books

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• The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature.

  Peter L. Bernstein

  Math, Men, Past

  Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

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• Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  People, Firsts, Modern

  Ezra Taft Benson (1964). “Title of liberty”

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• The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.

  Adi Da

  Religious, League, Done

  Adi Da Samraj (1980). “Scientific proof of the existence of God will soon be announced by the White House!: prophetic wisdom about the myths and idols of mass culture and popular religious cultism, the new priesthood of scientific and political materialism, and the secrets of enlightenment hidden in the body of man”, Dawn Horse Pr

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• In modern times we are often encouraged to protect our ego-force and individuality by securing a private world in which to develop our unique artistic voice. Many artists find themselves solo-paddling along a private and unchallenging river... Could rivalry be a productive system?

  Sara Genn

  Artist, Unique, Voice

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• Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Journey, Hiking, Perfection

  G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”

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• It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called in any sense privileged, it has shown the largest and most consistent concern for the well-being of the classes which lie below it in the social scale.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Lying, Class, Intellectual

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.29, Vintage

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• The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Equality, Discovery, Cost

  "Robert Browning". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Dream, House, Church

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1926.

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• In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

  Randal Marlin

  Policy Making, Numbers, Sound

  Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.118, Broadview Press

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• In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Ideas, Perfection

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.6, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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