“We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.” MaySocialAttitudeGroupsModernRevolutionNormalAtheistArguingDiscourseHomosexual Author:Philip Warren Anderson
“The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.” StatesNaturalModernConditionsMovementRevolutionDefinitionsConservativeUncomfortableConservation Author:Craig Shirley
“How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Post-Modern Era, then The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.” FeelsYearsWarBigsAgeNextDarkFourModernEventsInformationRevolutionTasksWaveAppearanceFinishedChecksErasPostsThirtyApocalypseNext YearEarthquakesDark AgesRenaissanceFamineThirty YearsIndustrial RevolutionPlannersInformation AgePestilenceHorsemenTidal WavesBig EventsModern EraCameosFour HorsemenFour Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“America was founded by intellectuals, a rare occurrence in the history of modern nations We might even say that America was founded by intellectuals, from which it has taken us two centuries and a communications revolution to recover.” TwoMightAmericaNationsTakenModernCenturyCommunicationRevolution Book:Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.” MenWarFeelingsLostGenerationsModernLonelinessRevolutionAchievementInstitutionsTerrorDisappointmentProvidenceTechnologicalInferiorityOur GenerationModern ManLost Faith Book:Aspects of I.B. Singer Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer
“I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.” HumansFactsModernAwarenessRevolutionModern ScienceIndustrial Revolution Author:Kenneth R. Miller
“I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.” KnowsMeanKidsTodayGrowsWorryGrowing UpModernRevolutionDirtyModern LifeSexual Revolution Author:Lily Tomlin
“Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas.” ArtPlayHappensSocialBlackModernPaintingRevolutionRussiaAbstractSquaresRealismPeasantsColorfulAbstract ArtRussian Revolution Author:Robert Longo
“The new revolution in cooking can be viewed in two ways. One is that you can take any traditional food and apply modern techniques. The other approach is to create food that is quite different than anything that has existed before.” WayTwoDifferentModernRevolutionApproachCookingTechniqueTraditionalTwo Ways Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian roots, thereby becoming rootless itself.” AgeChristianModernRevolutionBecomingAchievementRootsModernityFrench RevolutionModern Age Author:Walter Kasper
“Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance of the Industrial Revolution and the flowering of modern capitalism.” WayMadeWinningLibertyModernCenturyRevolutionMoralityCapitalismTechnologicalExpandingFloweringIndustrial Revolution Author:Murray Rothbard
“It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. It began quite openly as a reaction against the liberalism of the French Revolution. The French writers who laid its foundation had no doubt that their ideas could be put into practice only by a strong dictatorial government. The first of modern planners, Saint-Simon, predicted that those who did not obey his proposed planning boards would be 'treated as cattle'.” FirstsIdeasGovernmentWould BeStrongPracticeDoubtModernRevolutionFoundationSaintPlanningReactionsSocialismTreatedRememberedBoardsNo DoubtLiberalismCattleFrench RevolutionPlanners Author:Friedrich August von Hayek