I Quotes
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“In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.”
“In an absolute vacuum, no space and time exist as actualities except as potential. If there is no world or universe, there is no space and time in our interpretation of these words and concepts. But, if there is no space, there is no world and no time.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.”
Source: In Defence of Politics
“In an abusive relationship - we'll talk about men and women - women are often restrained, by words or out of fear, from leaving. They will tolerate abuse up to and including being put to death.”
“In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.”
“In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.”
“In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.”
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
“In an actual criminal trial, before a judge or jury, the standard of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt. In the grand jury proceeding, no one on the defense side is present to hold the prosecutor’s feet to the fire. And, because of the absence of defense arguments, grand juries almost always return an indictment. When prosecutors bring cases to grand juries, they are looking for a rubber stamp.”
Source: Betrayal of Justice
“In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of the new view of Nature, and described it as "a brutal philosophy to wit, there is no God, and the ape is our Adam." ...These attacks from such eminent sources set the clerical fashion for several years.”
Source: A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods
“In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them”
Source: The Ordeal of Change
“In an adult addict's life, a mother can only experience the brief passing scent of her sweet child as they manipulate all who love them for their addiction.”
“In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work. The infrastructure of society is arranged so that only the job gives access to the tools of production...Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or the very rich. A society that fosters intense dependence on commodities thus turns its unemployed into either its poor or its dependents.”
“In an affluent society, even men of well-below-average provisioning capability can easily reproduce at above replacement rate. They may, for that matter, be better husbands and fathers than most wealthy men. Considered rationally, therefore, general prosperity ought to lead to a flourishing society of moderately large families. But the female sex instinct, as the reader may possibly have noticed, is not rational. It is triggered by relative rather than absolute wealth, and so men’s sexual attractiveness is still determined by their status within the social hierarchy as perceived by women.”
Source: Sexual Utopia in Power: The Feminist Revolt Against Civilization
“In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith.”
Source: The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability
“In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns.”
“In an age in which infidelity abounds, do we observe parents carefully instructing their children in the principles of faith which they profess? Or do they furnish their children with arguments for the defense of that faith? ...it is not surprising to see them abandon a position which they are unable to defend.”
“In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella'—can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids”
“In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.”
“In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.”
“In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.”
“In an age of abstract experience, fornication
Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria,
And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients;
Patients, wards of society. Whores, by that rule,
Are precious.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. And in an age of distraction, nothing is so luxurious as paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is so urgent as sitting still.”
“In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.”
“In an age of bombs
guzzling blood, skylarks merge peace
with thought and action.”
Source: The River of Winged Dreams
“In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.”
“In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?”
Source: How to Thrive in the Digital Age
“In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.”
Source: The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
“In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.”
Source: The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
“In an age of dynamic malware obfuscation through operations such as mutating hash, a hyper-evolving threat landscape, and technologically next generation adversaries, offensive campaigns have an overwhelming advantage over defensive strategies.”
“In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about famine or the blowing up of passenger planes - and we are all aware that we are incapable of reacting appropriately. A guilty consciousness of emotional inadequacy or impotence makes people doubt their own human weight.”
Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
“In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.”
Source: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
“In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now?”
“In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.”
Source: Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics
“In an age of illusion, being authentic is a form of philosophical resistance - a refusal to betray the truth solely for the comfort of collective lies. It is to recognise that true freedom is found not in conformity, but in the courage to be honest, to think deeply, and to live unshackled by the chains
of societal expectation.”
Source: Walking On The Land Of Dead Brothers
“In an age of immediacy the idea of waiting sounds hopelessly outdated. But that said, there is something to be said about anticipation...”
“In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.”
“In an age of information overload ... the last thing any of us needs is more information about God. We need the practice of incarnation, by which God saves the lives of those whose intellectual assent has turned them dry as dust, who have run frighteningly low on the Bread of Life, who are dying to know more God in their bodies. Not more about God. More God.”
“In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors in society to mobilize global science, technology and knowledge to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation and conflict that are holding back the developing world.”
“In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.”
“In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too”
“In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.”
“In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.”
“In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.”
“In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left”
Source: Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion
“In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.”
“In an age of sophistic over-complexity, simplicity can be useful.”
“In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.”
Source: Flanagan's Version: A Spectator's Guide to Science on the Eve of the 21st Century
“In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.”
“In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.”
“In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.”
Source: A Victorian spectator: uncollected writings of R.H. Hutton