“Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.” ThinkingWorldWellsStatesPoliticalPowerfulSecretDemocracyWonderfulModernDevelopmentCapitalismBuiltToolsInnovationMechanismModern WorldEmpoweredVery Powerful Author:Bill Gates
“It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The fact before us is that all ideas of gods can be traced to the earliest stages of human history.... There is an unbroken line of descent linking the gods of the most primitive peoples to those of modern man. We reject the world of the savage; but we still, in our churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, perpetuate the theories he built upon that world.” MenWorldHumansStillsIdeasFactsFormChurchLinesAcceptingAtheismModernStageTheoryBuiltEssenceUselessTemplesRejectsPrimitiveSavagesHuman HistoryDescentUnbrokenMosquesModern ManSynagogue Author:Chapman Cohen
“I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all.” ThinkingStillsModernCarBuiltHorseOriginalsAbandonedEngineeringFrameworkCartsCarriagesMulesModern Marriage Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.” ThinkingHas BeensIdeasRealClearModernCreationTheoryBuiltFoundationWidePhysicsSignificanceConceptionNewtonRelativityTheories Of Relativity Author:Albert Einstein
“Our common goal should be the development of a system of equal security for all governments. System adequate [to deal with] modern threats, built on regional and global nonaligned bases. Only then can we ensure peace and tranquility in the world.” WorldShouldGovernmentPeaceGoalDealsCommonModernSecurityDevelopmentEqualBuiltBasesThreatTranquilityAdequatePeace And TranquilityCommon Goal Author:Vladimir Putin
“The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending cycle of production for the sake of consumption. The modern concept of "built-in obsolescence" makes this clear. The cycle of production and consumption has to be kept going, and the work of the artist or craftsman who aims to create something enduring becomes marginal to the economic order.” HumansArtistOrderClearEconomicModernEffectsActivityProjectsEnlightenmentConceptsBuiltLaborAimEndureSakeProductionsPostsCyclesConsumptionConsumerismHuman SocietyOverconsumptionHuman ActivityUnendingCraftsmanObsolescenceEconomic Order Author:Lesslie Newbigin
“The modern world has created airports and hospitals and put 10,000 songs in our pocket. It has built gleaming buildings and computers and advances and innovations that blow our minds. But we have soul, and spirit, and consciousness, and the modern world hasn't done so well at helping us name and understand what it means to be thriving and fully alive with a full heart.” WorldMindWellsHeartMeanSoulDoneHelpingSpiritSongNamesConsciousnessAliveModernBuildingComputerBuiltInnovationBlowPocketsHospitalsAirportsModern WorldFull Hearts Author:Rob Bell
“For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.” WholeUseFatherEconomicModernSecurityMaterialsIndustryCivilizationBuiltLaborStructureKingdomsCorporationsConcentrationAgricultureImpressedRoyalMachineryModern LifeMaterial ThingsDynastyModern CivilizationLabor And Capital Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“I have never met anyone who built a bomb shelter and felt protected by it. I have never met a modern military man who did not realize that military victory is a concept which became obsolete with the coming of the nuclear age, and most civilians realize this also. Wisdom demands that we stop preparing to wage a war which would eliminate mankind - and start preparing to eliminate the seeds of war.” MenWarAgeFeltRealizingModernMankindMilitaryVictoryMetsDemandConceptsBuiltSeedsNuclearBombsProtectedShelterPreparingCiviliansObsoleteMilitary ManBomb Shelters Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego and desires ... Having a clear faith, according to the credo of the church, is often labeled as fundamentalism. Yet relativism, that is, letting oneself being carried 'here and there by any wind of doctrine,' appears as the sole attitude good enough for modern times.” EnoughDesireChurchAttitudeClearModernWindEgoBuiltUltimateOneselfDoctrineGood EnoughSoleDictatorshipFundamentalismDefiniteHere And ThereRelativismModern TimesCredo Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.” DoeFactsFoundModernIndustryCivilizationPureDiscoveryBuiltSoilCommerceScientific Discovery Author:Herbert Hoover
“I did not like that name "world music" in the beginning. I think that African music must get more respect than to be put in a ghetto like that. We have something to give to others. When you look to how African music is built, when you understand this kind of music, you can understand that a lot of all this modern music that you are hearing in the world has similarities to African music. It's like the origin of a lot of kinds of music.” ThinkingWorldGivingLooksKindNamesModernMusic IsBuiltHearingSimilarityGhettoWorld MusicModern MusicAfrican Music Author:Baaba Maal