“Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.” NeedsHumansCountryStatesPoliticalEconomyRightsModernDemocraticProfoundHuman RightsProtectionOpeningOur CountryReformIdeologicalOpening UpPluralismMixed Economy Author:Andrei Sakharov
“The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.” MenWorldHumansWellsProblemRaceGenerationsEconomicModernMovementHe ManDevelopmentBenefitsSolutionsMen And WomenUltimateImportanceRelationConstantInternationalVariousDoctrineWell BeingDiscussionHuman RaceThemeExceedStandpointModern TimesEconomic ProblemsArbitration Author:William Howard Taft
“The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.” HumansIdeasGoalHuman BeingsModernHighestConsciousFulfillmentTouchingConquestConsumedPursuedPinnacle Author:Robert Briffault
“But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere in the world. And it is the gravest problem of land use: Modern humans typically are using places whose nature they have never known and whose history they have forgotten; thus ignorant, they almost necessarily abuse what they use.” WorldHumansFactsUseProblemLostKnownModernLandAbuseForgottenIgnorantParamountModern HistoryLand Use Author:Wendell Berry
“Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.” ThinkingShouldHumansMaySaidImportantPassionInterestModernIntellectualInstitutionsCuriositySatisfactionWelfareCharacteristicsConsiderationApplicationDevotedRulingOutstandingCultivationModern TimesImmediacyIntellectual LifeRuling Passion Author:Abraham Flexner
“Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on.” PeopleWorldWayGivingHumansPersonsHas BeensImportantRealFeelingsCausesCommunityModernDependsBlameResponseIsolationReal WorldGiving BackCompetenceModern LifeCommentatorsVirtual RealityImportant PersonVirtual World Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?” MenShouldHumansMayMeanUnderstandingOpinionModernProveEvidenceInvisibleBotherImmortalityMemories Dreams ReflectionsModern ManInsistingScientific Evidence Book:Man and His Symbols Source: Man and His Symbols
“Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.” WorldYearsHumansDoeImportantReasonRealityPoliticalSoundProgressEconomicModernIndustryBalanceHumorousPrisonTrainDetailsAppreciationPracticalsFiftyWrestlingSanityHarshMachineryRevivalAutomobilePublic ServiceOpen MindednessCottagesColossalQuaintTelegraphHarsh Reality Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?” IfsMenHumansRealDemocracyModernSourceEqualConceptsDignityInfinityHuman Dignity Author:Louis Pasteur