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“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.”

Humans Ideas Goal Human Beings Modern Highest Conscious Fulfillment Touching Conquest Consumed Pursued Pinnacle

Author:Robert Briffault

“Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam.”

World Kind Individual Wish Goal Voice Results Vision Violence Modern Determination West Islam Violent Modern Life Eloquent Militant Jihad Phobia Hegemony Islamists Burqa

Author:Daniel Pipes

“Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary, and his other activities are instrumental to it. The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear progression directed to, and justified by, the achievement of a series of goals; it is a cycle in which ends cannot be isolated, one which cannot be dissected into a series of ends and means.”

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“Full employment is a socially hazardous goal. In effect, it aspires to restore through political expedients the pre-industrial state of toil that science, engineering, technology and modern management are pledged to overcome.”

States Wisdom Political Politics Goal Technology Economy Modern Effects Overcoming Management Employment Liberalism Engineering Aspire Toil

Book:Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“In the rush of complex modern living, we have a tendency to laugh at the 'bring-Papa-his-pipe-and-slippers' approach to marriage - but most men are more than a little wistful at its demise. A man dreams of home as a haven and his wife as a romantic, fragrant creature whose most important goal in life is making him comfortable.”

Men Littles Important Home Dream Life Is Goal Laughing Wife Modern Havens Creatures Comfortable Approach Complexes Tendencies Pipe Life Goal Demise Papa Slippers

Author:Arlene Dahl

“Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth may, better than we, carry on the striving toward the goal of understanding and using the Universe, climbing to heights we ourselves could never aspire to.”

Giving May Hate Fighting Universe Understanding Goal Modern Birth Machines Intelligent Strive Height Climbing Aspire Modern Life Intelligent Machines

Book:Past, Present, and Future

Source: Past, Present, and Future

“Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.”

Years Humans Body Might Moving Given Goal Modern Century Degrees Human Body Modern Life Ingenuity

Author:Lance Morrow

“Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.”

Goal Modern Ideals Philosopher Plato Menace

Author:Moses Finley

“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.”

World Should Government Peace Goal Deals Common Modern Security Development Equal Built Bases Threat Tranquility Adequate Peace And Tranquility Common Goal

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.”

World Hard Moments Success Goal Powerful Modern Hard Work Embrace Meaningful Combination Abundance Present Moment Modern World

Author:Old Tom Morris

“[17th-century] Puritans were the first modern parents. Like many of us, they looked on their treatment of children as a test of their own self-control. Their goal was not to simply to ensure the child's duty to the family, but to help him or her make personal, individual commitments. They were the first authors to state that children must obey God rather than parents, in case of a clear conflict.”

Firsts Children Self States Helping Individual Parent Goal Cases Clear Modern Century Duty Conflict Commitment Tests Treatment Self Control Puritan 17th Century

Author:C. Sommerville

“Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method!”

People Men Firsts Ideas Use Force Goal Moral Modern Achieve Stupid Gun Method Clever Primitive Persuasion Immoral Brutes Stupid People Modern Man Brute Force Primitive Man

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“There's no scientific definition. A hymn... is a song of praise to God. I think there were three real goals with our hymns that made them seem more in line with traditional classical hymn writing than with the modern worship movement and differentiate us slightly...”

Thinking Writing Made Real Seems Song Three Goal Lines Modern Movement Worship Praise Definitions Traditional Hymns Differentiate Praises To God

Author:Keith Getty

“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.”