Modern World Quotes - Page 16

• The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood.

  Russell Baker

  Country, Food, America

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• Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use are means to the individual's liberation. We do not perceive how a man may be armed and at the same time bereft of his freedom.

  John Keegan

  Mean, Men, Liberty

  John Keegan (2012). “A History of Warfare”, p.94, Vintage

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• The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

  Nevil Shute

  Jobs, Men, Proud

  Nevil Shute (1991). “Ruined City”

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• Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious gift, an open mind, but it's not passive. You've got to nurture it like a bed of roses; otherwise it will wither and die. Make sure you don't close off your mind to things you find strange. Sometimes they may be the only truth.

  Tim Lebbon

  Growing Up, Bed Of Roses, Doors

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• It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

  Robert A. Agresta

  Government, Self, World

  Inauguration Speech at the Mayor & Council Meeting, January 2009.

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• They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

  Ronald Reagan

  Evil, Presidential, Focus

  Ronald Reagan's Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, www.reaganlibrary.gov. March 8, 1983.

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• Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.

  Terry Pratchett

  Black And White, America, Racism

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.212, Random House

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• The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.

  Thomas Szasz

  War, Self, Two

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1990). “The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary”, Open Court Publishing Company

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• Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.

  Charles William Eliot

  Education, Honor, World

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• I think in the modern world we really need to have movie theaters or places we can go in and rejuvenate ourselves. I think we'll have less problems with our souls and our health. I do that in my life, and I feel healthy and happy. I need those hours in the darkness where I used to spend time as a kid, sitting in a little closet in the darkness, listening to AM radio, having glowing paint that I illuminated, just sitting there, dreaming about anything, not being disturbed for an hour or two, just alone in the dark. I'm still that little boy in my brain.

  Peter Stormare

  Dream, Kids, Dark

  Source: collider.com

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• The unknown is the most frightening and mysterious thing, especially in the modern world where we can practically Google anything and find out the back story. I think to have that element of mystery it almost creates a frustration that is closer to real life.

  Larry Fessenden

  Real, Thinking, Frustration

  "Interview with 'Beneath' director Larry Fessenden". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. March 25, 2014.

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• In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.

  John Berger

  Writing, People, Political

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• Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

  Winston Churchill

  Learning, People, Support

  Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

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• The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of "mud mummies" around you, get rid of the mud.

  Perry Brass

  People, Fake, World

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.27, Perry Brass

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• I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Differences, America, World

  Jeremy Paxman (2002). “The political animal: an anatomy”

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• Jeremy, are we going to play your games?

  Alastair Campbell

  Games, Play, America

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• I think this market space, this modern world we're living in, one of its greatest failures is that it can only seem to describe a collective in terms of consumers or clients. It never sees an audience or a community as part of the process. And that's something I'm quite proud of, even if the music is crap.

  Herbert

  Thinking, Space, Community

  Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 2008.

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• Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.

  Old Tom Morris

  Success, Meaningful, Powerful

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• In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

  Charles William Eliot

  Progress, World, Public Opinion

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• Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

  H. L. Mencken

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Intellectual

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.616, Vintage

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• The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Different, Culture, Heritage

  "Holding on to Romanticism". "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, May 2, 1931.

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• We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university.

  Roger Revelle

  Taken, Cities, Age

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• The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Men, World

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

  Al Franken

  Money, Media, America

  "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them". Book by Al Franken, September 2003.

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• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Humor, Law

  "Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost". Book by Lawrence Thompson, 1942.

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