Modern World Quotes - Page 7

• Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.

  Pete Townshend

  Data, Doe, World

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

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• Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they are treated as independent disciplines, it seems valid. Actually, the are derivatives of a single origin and in the skillful employment of words and images lies the expressive potential of the medium.

  Will Eisner

  Lying, Communication, Independent

  Will Eisner (2008). “Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

  Russell Baker

  Sunday, America, Political

  "The Morals Charge". The New York Times, May 14, 1974.

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• The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

  Jean Danielou

  Science, World, Way

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• The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizens are subjected to state-sponsored religious exercises, the State disavows its own duty to guard and respect that sphere of inviolable conscience and belief which is the mark of a free people.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Religious, Exercise, People

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• From space travel to organ transplants, one of the most important influences shaping the modern world is science. Amazingly, people who lived during the Civil War had more in common with Abraham than with us. If Christians are going to speak to that world and interact with it responsibly, they must interact with science.

  J.P. Moreland

  Christian, War, Space

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• The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we think is real. We live for it; we're enslaved by it. And it will ultimately be our undoing.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Real, Thinking, World

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• In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?

  Wernher von Braun

  Religious, Real, Thinking

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• There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the Communist. The other, equally frankly, is the convinced Christian. The rest of the world are amiable nonentities.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Christian, Two, People

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• The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.

  David Lynch

  Hurt, Zero, Pain

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.58, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.

  David Brooks

  Frustration, Vocabulary, Sound

  "Ask the Author Live: David Brooks on the Composure Class". Live chat with readers, www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2011.

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• Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Patriotic, Eye, Dust

  Thorstein Veblen (2006). “An Inquiry Into the Nature of Peace, and the Terms of Its Perpetuation”, p.40, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.

  Ennio Morricone

  Musical, Style, World

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• Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one of the big problems of Africa in the modern world. Our problem is just this: how to get the benefits of European society - benefits that have been brought about by an organization based upon the individual - and yet retain African's own structure of society in which the individual is a member of a kind of fellowship.

  Julius Nyerere

  Civilization, Organization, Benefits

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• The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stupid, Believe, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935”, p.28, Routledge

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• Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.

  Eva Burrows

  Needs, World, Today

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• The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world - and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism - are centered on the Word of God and, at the same time, draw therefrom their justification and support.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Stress, Support, Community

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• Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.

  Mike Curran

  World, Kitsch, Modern

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• God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.

  John Gresham Machen

  God, Time, Hands

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• What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.

  Tony Robbins

  Communication, Quality, World

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Science, Errors, Long

  1905 Heretics, ch.13.

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• No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Lonely, Loneliness, World

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Keys, Survival, Liberty

  "In our search for Britishness, we should put out more flags - or none" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2006.

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• The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.

  Thomas Huxley

  Art, Teaching, Rome

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.315, Cambridge University Press

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• Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. It has also been noted that in the modern world, health still has a moral dimension.

  Mildred Blaxter

  Health, Everyday, World

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