“If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.” PeopleIfsWorldHeartModernDiseaseStandardsWesternDietsModern WorldHeart Disease Author:Joel Fuhrman
“Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.” PeopleWellsIdeasMillionsModernFiguresDesignMaterialsProductsDependsHigherStandardsContraryWell BeingStationsFewerLocationMundaneSupermarketsStandards Of LivingGasolineHigher StandardsIncorporation Author:Thomas Sowell
“Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In this wilderness cries the voice of Patrick White, Australian extraordinary, who has quite other, more austere and indeed prophetic ambitions. (...) (H)is failures are certainly the equivalent, and perhaps the measure, of other men's success.” MenVoiceWhiteNumbersNovelModernCryAmbitionStandardsExtraordinaryWildernessAustralianPropheticDo It YourselfSmall NumbersModern Novel Author:David Pryce-Jones
“Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards by his cleanliness, and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly.” ThinkingMenSeemsMoralModernDogJudgingStandardsRoundsWinterInventionCivilizedBellyCarpetToiletsBathsVacuumsCleanlinessCleanersModern Man Book:My country and my people Source: My country and my people
“Die Hard represents the class of modern action pictures and the standard by which they must be judged. Few films falling into the "mindless entertainment" genre have as much going for them as this movie. Not only is it a thrill-a-minute ride, but it has one of the best film villains in recent memory, a hero everyone can relate to, dialogue that crackles with wit, and a lot of very impressive pyrotechnics.” HardActionFilmDiesFallMemoriesClassModernMinutesHeroStandardsEntertainmentWitDialogueRelateGenreJudgedVillainThrillImpressiveMindlessBest FilmVery ImpressivePyrotechnics Author:James Berardinelli
“For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable, features which contribute, respectively, to modern depersonalization and anxiety.” RunningModernAnxietyStandardsMachinesFeaturesDepersonalization Author:Charles Eisenstein
“What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.” EndsValuesVirtueModernMankindMaterialsStandardsConstantAdvertisingAppealsMaterial ThingsElevatingStandards And Values Book:Singing Waters Source: Singing Waters
“I don't think environmentalists have the slightest reason to be concerned about globalization because every time you move a plant to a new place you upgrade the neighborhood. You put in global standards. You put in modern plants. And all the plants around it get improved.” ThinkingReasonMovingModernStandardsConcernedPlantNeighborhoodGlobalizationEnvironmentalistNew Places Author:Jack Welch
“What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high-mindeness, personal dignity, even the sense of honour, is derived from the purely human, not the religious part of our education, and never could have grown out of a standard of ethics in which the only worth, professedly recognized, is that of obedience.” HumansLittlesIdeasChristianReligiousAtheismModernSourceHonorMoralityStandardsEthicsDignityPositive AtheismObligationRecognitionObedienceGreekPrivate LifeMagnanimityPersonal Dignity Author:John Stuart Mill
“Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure of excellence. Modern science arose from global objections against earlier views and rationalism itself, the idea that there are general rules and standards for conducting our affairs, affairs of knowledge included, arose from global objections to common sense.” IdeasFactsResultsViewsCommonModernStandardsExcellenceMereAffairCommon SenseSufficientObjectionsModern ScienceConductingRationalism Author:Paul Feyerabend
“I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they provided explanations of our existence that completely rejected supernatural agents... Darwin and Wallace set a standard not only for the life sciences but for cosmology as well.” WellsExistenceOpinionAtheismModernStandardsAgentsExplanationHistorianRejectedVentureCosmology Author:Leonard Susskind
“The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.” UseModernProductsStandardsMachinesAimPrimariesWarfareStandards Of LivingModern Warfare Book:George Orwell's 1984 Source: George Orwell's 1984
“I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. I think it ought to be governed by the standards of how it affects the individual animals, just as we'd want to deal with institutions that deal with humans by how they affect individual humans.” ThinkingWantHumansIndividualAnimalDealsModernOughtStandardsInstitutionsNotionGrossFarmingInterference Author:Peter Singer
“Monetary reform, if it is to be genuine and successful, must sever money and banking from politics. That's why a modern gold standard must have: no central bank; no fixed rations between gold and silver; no bail-outs; no suspension of gold payments or other bank frauds; no monetization of debt; and no inflation of the money supply, all of which have proved so disastrous in the past.” IfsPastSuccessfulModernStandardsGoldDebtGenuineReformFixedSilverFraudBankingInflationPaymentMonetaryCentral BanksSuspensionBailGold And SilverGold StandardRations Author:Lawrence Reed
“The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the rich would have disastrous effects, not just for the rich but for the poor and middle classes themselves. For it is the rich who provide a proportionately greater amount of saving, investment capital, entrepreneurial foresight, and financing of technological innovation that has brought the Unites States to by far the highest standard of living - for the mass of the people - of any country in history.” PeopleDoeCountryStatesFactsPoorClassRichGreaterModernMiddleEffectsAmountHighestMassStandardsInnovationInvestmentSavingWelfareMiddle ClassTechnologicalEntrepreneurialForesightStandards Of LivingWelfare StateFinancingSoaking Author:Murray Rothbard
“If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate as higher standards of living are attained, and that it is precisely the richest societies which pursue their economic advantage with the greatest ruthlessness?” IfsMenDoeEconomicModernMastersHigherActivityStandardsAdvantageGreedPursueStandards Of LivingFrenzyModern ManHigher StandardsRuthlessnessSmall Is Beautiful Author:E. F. Schumacher
“I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.” ThinkingLittlesDifferentModernIntegrityStandardsManifestationSaying NoGrudge Author:Fran Lebowitz