Quotes About Modern

The humiliating climbdown, the necessary deception, and stepping over one's pride: they should each have their honoured place in a modern account of the political virtues.

I believe it is dangerous for the ethic of divinity to supersede the ethic of autonomy in the governance of a diverse modern democracy. However, I also believe that life in a society that entirely ignored the ethic of divinity would be ugly and unsatisfying.

Muller asserted that modern conservatism is really about creating the best possible society, the one that brings about the greatest happiness given local circumstances.

Wisdom is now so cheap and abundant that it floods over us from calendar pages, tea bags, bottle caps, and mass e-mail messages forwarded by well-meaning friends.

The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best? ' published in 1975.

by extending our life spans, modern medicine and public health have already added more than a decade to the upturn,

I'm in love with the modern worldMassachusetts when it's late at nightAnd the neon when it's cold outsideI've got the radio on

Or, to take the analogy imagined by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger in Jews and Words, the reader today who consumes "Tolstoy and Toni Morrison with his morning coffee while skimming two news sites on his electronic device and perusing the small print on his breakfast cereal package.

What the secularists forgot is that Homo sapiens is the meaning-seeking animal. If there is one thing the great institutions of the modern world do not do, it is to provide meaning.

People brush past us on the street in endless waves, leaving somewhere, headed somewhere else, laughing, smoking, speaking into cell phones, completely oblivious to the holocaust of an entire world casually imploding in their midst.

Nobody had a sense of direction anymore, including himself. They were too dependent on screens.

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

El aumento del número de parejas rotas en nuestros días es una manifestación de la crisis de la persona, que se encuentra perdida de sí misma, desorientada y a merced del hedonismo, el consumismo, la permisividad y el relativismo.

De aquí surge un nuevo hombre: embotado, repleto de cosas, pero vacío interiormente. Va a ir siguiendo la ruta de la ansiedad, que terminará en una forma especial de melancolía e indiferencia.

We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

My argument is that we will not be able to fight fundamentalism until we produce a modern progressive secular educated class of people who know the traditions and take the best of it.

This is a generation best summed up by the kid that will stand in front of a microwave oven shouting, "Come on, I ain't got all minute!

But together they will represent the range of positions and the diversity of viewpoints that constitute the heterogeneity of the modern city and account for the variations in the ways that the heat wave was managed and interpreted.

A church that does not keep step with modern scientific knowledge is doomed.

A transformação contínua – a capacidade de uma organização para testar e aprender com experiências relacionadas à sua própria estrutura e a seus processos, promovendo, por toda a empresa, as melhores técnicas comprovadas, limitando ou descartando o resto – é o que dará a essa organização a capacidade de prosperar na era moderna.

in general management, a failure to deliver results is due to either a failure to plan adequately or a failure to execute properly. Both are significant lapses, yet new product development in our modern economy routinely requires exactly this kind of failure on the way to greatness.

Una empresa moderna es aquella que posee ambas mitades, ambos sistemas. La empresa moderna tiene la capacidad de fabricar productos de alta fiabilidad y calidad, pero también de descubrir nuevos productos para su fabricación.

entrepreneur" should be considered a job title in all modern companies that depend on innovation for their future growth.