“The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.” AgeBlackModernMiddleCenturyRatsPlagueMiddle AgesModern LifeTouristsBlack Death Author:Richard Conniff
“In the Middle Ages people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.” PeopleAgeTodayModernMiddleCenturyCitizensOilTechnologicalSnakesMiddle Ages19th CenturyAilmentsCactusAntioxidants Author:Charles Krauthammer
“We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university.” WorldAgeCitiesTakenModernMiddleUniversitySymbolsModern WorldMiddle AgesCathedrals Author:Roger Revelle
“In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.” LooksStillsAgeChristianityToo MuchModernMiddleMiddle AgesThresholdCrudeModern MusicScholasticism Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected, for the church also sheltered them. The need for shelter - for a father image that cares and will hopefully provide and give some meaning to human lives - remains as real as it was in the Middle Ages, but modern technocracy has no place for either the father or the church and provides no substitute.” NeedsGivingHumansRealCareAgeFatherChurchModernMiddleSubjectsReturnKingsRemainsProtectionLoyaltyHopefullyHuman LifeSubstitutesProtectedShelterMiddle Ages Book:The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America Source: The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America
“We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.” ThinkingMenReasonAgeTodayEarthBeliefModernMiddleCenturyExampleTheoryRoundsAverageAppealsMentalityMiddle AgesTwentieth CenturySuperstitiousCredulityAverage ManGullibleRound Earth Author:George Bernard Shaw
“There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system.” PeopleWholeAgeChristianGivenBitsInterestTeacherEconomicModernMiddleAdviceBasesInvestmentAncientJewGreekTestamentMiddle AgesOld TestamentEconomic SystemsLendingAncient GreekGreat ChristianLending MoneyChristian Teachers Book:The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics