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“Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much. I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us.”

“An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.”

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world, the Christian will often think that it consists of targeting and demoralizing fellow Christians and only fellow Christians. It is one thing to stand against religious hypocrisy when one sees it, but it is another to go on snorting at anything or anyone who might seem 'too Christian' to us. The irony is that by doing this we are further advocating hypocrisy and 'half-hearted Christians'.”

Thinking World Seems Might Christian Winning Christ Religious Half One Thing Modern Goes On Fellows Irony Hypocrisy Approval Hearted Advocating Demoralizing Half Hearted

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.”

People Writing Social Half Modern Century Critics Theme 20th Century Modern Society Purposelessness

Book:The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

“A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.”

People Humans Persons Made Real Half Modern Century Birth Seeking Corporations Artificial Remakes Psychopath Modern Business

Book:The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

“The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.”

Trying Humans Long Human Beings Attention Half Modern Average Attention Span

Author:Meg Rosoff

“Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.”

Half Modern Century Movement Building Models Ultimate Architecture Planning Reform Code 19th Century Public Health Modern Architecture Health Reform Reform Movements

Author:Kenneth Frampton

“We think that we have to do so many things and it's unfortunate, entire modern society is besotted with the do-ables, we have to do this, we have to have a half-hour of yoga, an hour of meditation, 2 hours of this, and then 12 hours of work and non-stop electronic gadgets, gizmos etc. etc., and then go home and take care of the family, and then take the children to wherever, and what tends to happen is we do way too much. The society does way too much. One of the greatest things in healing is try for just one day to do nothing. Very difficult.”

“Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.”

Art Black Existence Half Doubt Modern Devil Witchcraft Modern Science Employing Sneer Black Art

Book:Miscellanies

Source: Miscellanies

“I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.”

Ifs Knows Feels Believe Doe Facts Mother Sin Half Consciousness Hell Modern Finals Deny God Love God Loves Me

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.”

America Half Modern Century Endure Japan Alliances Bushism Modern Times

Author:George W. Bush

“What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable outcome to evolution. Half our present uneasiness would be turned to happiness if we could once make up our minds to accept the facts and place the essence and the measure of our modern cosmogonies within a noogenesis.”

Ifs World Mind Facts Would Be Half Accepting Seeing Modern Evolution Roots Essence Outcomes Modern World Suitable Uneasiness

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“I guess I'm half traditionalist, half modern girl and I just never... I love the digital world and I love electronica and after I shoot everything is digital, but I just... I don't know.”

Knows World Girl Half Modern Digital Digital World

Author:Carol Friedman