“The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.” SidesModernEnormousCombinationUsualBoth SidesTacticsCasualtiesOutdatedOrdnance Author:Iain Banks
“Oh God, modern life with all its feelings. ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch with their feelings. ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing!” WorldFeelingsGroupsModernTerribleEnormousTherapyBoresMottoSessionModern LifeMy MottoCallousGroup Therapy Author:Jane Stanton Hitchcock
“There is no better way to return the matter of taxation to full public discusssion than to repeal the withholding taxes on wages and salaries. Only when the American people are confronted with the enormous excesses of government in a personal and direct way - by an annual bill for services rendered - will they be able to make an informed judgment about which services they want and which ones they can do without.” PeopleWayWantMatterGovernmentAbleCan DoModernReturnTaxesJudgmentDirectBillsEnormousExcessWagesTaxationSalaryModern LifeBetter WaysAnnualsWithholding Author:Karl Hess
“An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.” SaidFormPowerfulRaceRichModernStupidTheoryAmountFindingsEnormousInventionAppealsRescueDefenceExhibitsIngenuityPseudoPhysical Science Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.” NovelModernHonestyMovementPaintingNotionStartingEnormousPainterDistinguishedPlaywrightBourgeoisBaudelaire Author:J. G. Ballard
“The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy.” NeedsBigsEnergyInterestingOne ThingModernFieldsCivilizationEnormousInteresting ThingsModern Civilization Author:Charlie Munger
“Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future just an image or thought. All our stories about past and future are only ideas, arising in the moment. Our modern culture is so tyrannized by goals, plans, and improvement schemes that we constantly live for the future. But as Aldous Huxley reminded us in his writings, "An idolatrous religion is one in which time is substituted for eternity...the idea of endless progress is the devil's work, even today demanding human sacrifice on an enormous scale.” WritingHumansIdeasMomentsStoriesRealityTodayPastCultureGoalMemoriesProgressPlansSacrificeModernEternalDevilConceptsEternityImprovementScalesEndlessEnormousSchemesHuxleyModern CultureLive Futures Author:Jack Kornfield
“We're looking at such enormous complexity and variety that it makes a mockery of "celebrating diversity." In the L.A. of the future, no one will need to say, "Let's celebrate diversity." Diversity is going to be a fundamental part of our lives. That's what it's going to mean to be modern.” NeedsMeanOur LivesModernDiversityFundamentalsEnormousCelebrateVarietyComplexityMockeryCelebrating Diversity Author:Richard Rodriguez