“You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.” ThinkingKnowsEndsAnswersModernRacism Author:Newt Gingrich
“An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.” ThinkingBookAnswersModernAmerican WomanInterviewers Author:Joseph McCarthy
“By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day institutions - some of them extremely vital to the functioning of our complex civilization - simply fail to exist in the first place.” FirstsAnswersFailingModernCivilizationInstitutionsMajorityComplexesModern Day Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Is it our task to force the biblical doctrine of God to answer to modern culture, or (is it our task) to address modern culture with the biblical doctrine of God? If modern culture-or any culture-establishes the baseline for the doctrine of God, such a doctrine will certainly bear little resemblance to the God of the Bible.” IfsLittlesCultureForceAnswersModernBearsTasksDoctrineAddressesBiblicalResemblanceModern Culture Author:Albert Mohler
“modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.” ProblemScienceAnswersModernConversationServantModern ScienceFlair Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them.” HurtAnswersModernBuildingSticksHockeyOrgansModern LifeRadHockey Sticks Author:Johnny Carson
“For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don't have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we're satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong.” KindHas BeensStillsIdeasSongUniverseStrongGrowsSimpleAnswersFantasyModernCenturyCreationKingsInnovationInfiniteCleanMythSatisfiedVarietyTiesDryBombsSatisfyingCheeseGoogleMultitudesMisleadSilkSitcomEnablingAtomic BombMitReruns Author:Scott Berkun
“A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.” MenLifeMindDoeLife IsGivenAnswersModernSensibleWorth LivingModern ManLife Is Worth Living Author:Erich Fromm
“Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.” MatterProblemAgeCultureAnswersModernCenturyMassCampsElitesDetachmentNineteenth CenturyPrerogativeSurrogatesDandyMass CultureDandyism Book:A Susan Sontag reader Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern age is that you are able to source answers, and sometimes the genius is in the combination of ideas and energy that does not reside in only one person.” PersonsDoeIdeasSometimesProblemAgeAblePainTogetherEnergyAnswersModernSourceGeniusSolutionsCombinationModern Age Author:Desmond Tutu
“From a Christian perspective, the answer to all of that is not power, as it is in the modern perspective. It's love. It's self-sacrifice. That's what love is all about. The marriage ceremony says it very well: sacrifice is difficult, but love can make it a joy.” WellsSelfChristianJoyDifficultAnswersLove IsSacrificeModernPerspectiveCeremonySelf SacrificeMarriage Ceremony Author:Francis George
“Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it” EnoughAbleLife IsDesireStuffAnswersModernKeysModern Society Author:Gunter Pauli
“[T]he shaman treats all realities as subjective, much like some modern theoretical physicists are beginning to do. In such a viewpoint the question of whether an experience is real or not makes no sense, because the answer is yes and no, depending on your point of view.” RealRealityAnswersViewsModernTreatsPoint Of ViewPhysicistSubjectiveTheoreticalViewpointsYes And No Author:Serge King
“Every time the diaphragm winks, the camera repeats the question that now travels through cyberspace and invades, as a modern virus, the memories of machines, men and women. The question that history sets forth. The question which forces us to define ourselves and whose answer makes us human: On which side are you?” MenHumansForceSidesMemoriesAnswersModernMen And WomenMachinesCamerasRepeatsVirusesCyberspace Author:Subcomandante Marcos
“If you ask which of the scenarios I think is most dangerous, though, I will give a different answer. In that form of the question, I regard a nuclear attack, terrorist-generated or otherwise, as the most threatening combination of likelihood and long-term damage to modern life today.” IfsThinkingGivingLongDifferentTodayFormAsksTermAnswersModernDangerousRegardNuclearTerroristCombinationLong TermDamageThreateningModern LifeScenariosLikelihood Author:John L. Casti