Modern World Quotes - Page 6

• The Night Manager doesn't exist in the post-Cold war universe, it exists much more in the modern world, I think. There is more action. The bad guys don't have particularly political or national-political affiliations.

  Tom Hiddleston

  War, Night, Thinking

  "Tom Hiddleston talks John le Carré's The Night Manager". Interview with Ian Nathan, www.empireonline.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.

  Mitch Horowitz

  Thinking, People, Facts

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 4, 2010.

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• Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation

  Julia Kristeva

  Fashion, War, Cities

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• To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

  Anthony Burgess

  Solitude, World, Modern

  "But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1986.

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• The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

  Robert Penn Warren

  History, Damnation, World

  "Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Development". Book by Chris Maser, 1999.

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• The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work.

  Vladimir Putin

  Reality, World, Demand

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• If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

  Alexei Sayle

  America, President, Different

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• For me, it's a multitude of things. In the modern world, there's a real genuine fear of loss of individuality and I think the undead speak to that. I also think the idea of the dead coming back to life, and this unstoppable foe that just keeps coming and coming, but rather slowly just chases you, is a real primal fear. It's like a fear of claustrophobia, heights or water.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Real, Loss, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

  Michael Scott

  Real, World, Modern

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.27, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.

  Scott Adams

  Writing, America, People

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

  Pete Townshend

  Religious, World, Modern

  Interview with Rob Mitchum, pitchfork.com. October 16, 2006.

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• Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

  Cate Blanchett

  Looks, World, Modern

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• In a modern world where a majority of women say, 'I don't need you, I've got my money, I've got my stuff,' I say, 'I desperately need men.' My whole album is a tribute to men. It takes a man in me to tell you that I'm on my knees for men.

  Lou Doillon

  Men, I Don't Need You, Knees

  "'If you aim to be the most beautiful, you’re f***ed': Jane Birkin's daughter Lou Doillon opens up about her free-spirited childhood". www.dailymail.co.uk. October 16, 2013.

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• In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Thinking, America, Important

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

  Peter L. Berger

  Real, Socialist Economy, Example

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• The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Pursuit Of Happiness, World, Misery

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.144, Regent College Publishing

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• I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.

  Bertrand Russell

  Lying, Done, World

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays”, p.3, Psychology Press

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• The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Idols, Feet, World

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• You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

  Charles A. Beard

  Life, Father, Struggle

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• Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

  Russell Baker

  America, Humanity, Events

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• In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

  Paul Goodman

  Political, World, Firsts

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.127, New York Review of Books

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• It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Mistake, People, Political

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.

  Felix Adler

  Struggle, School, Diversity

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• One of the problems of our modern world is that there's a lot of things to work through, but, at some point, everybody should take a pause from that and make something, so that it's not just all one-way traffic.

  Jarvis Cocker

  World, Way, Problem

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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• I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

  Terry Gilliam

  World, Modern, Bases

  Source: collider.com

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