Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.


A.C. Grayling

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tie...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS...
It seems obvious that what began as kind of an American idea became the emblem of the modern world a...
JAMES SANDERS
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers...
AGNES REPPLIER
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whisper...
AGNES REPPLIER
The so-called mystical characters of India, whom you call in many ways, such as “swami”, “baba...
ABHIJIT NASKAR
Fundamentalism represents a rebellion against modern secular society, the separation of religion and...
KAREN ARMSTRONG
I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of pe...
CHAIM POTOK
My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in mo...
DENNIS PRAGER
Modern society has subsided into a culture of deceit.
STEVEN REDHEAD
I wish to state strongly that protectionist impulses have no place in modern economic governance.
THIERRY BRETON
Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics - so we need to do something abou...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER
Modern society is a biological disaster masquerading as progress.
STEVEN MAGEE
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday ...
ELLEN GLASGOW
Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
TAYARI JONES
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern
that it will not som...
ELLEN GLASGOW
The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go ...
L'WREN SCOTT
...it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt ra...
ORSON SCOTT CARD
In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and p...
JOSHUA KROOK
Modern man has too many masks to wear. We must unmask and be ourselves, sincerely, earnestly and liv...
GYOMAY M. KUBOSE
The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has ...
NOAM CHOMSKY
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in streng...
RAOUL VANEIGEM
We live in a society where pizza takes shorter time to reach your house compared to the police, fire...
KEN NDARU
Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context...
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS
Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no ...
THOMAS FULLER
We are now better equipped to carry out our mission as a place for people to engage with great works...
JAY GATES
As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rath...
ARTHUR KORNBERG
The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.
RAYMOND LOEWY
There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.
MODERN MATURITY
There are dreamers and there are realists in this world. You'd think the dreamers would find the dre...
MODERN FAMILY
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem...
ANDREW MOTION
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and ...
G.K. CHESTERTON
It's so modern to be comfortable. It's so modern to wear something that's easy, that travels well, ....
CALVIN KLEIN
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers...
AGNES REPPLIER
The modern idea of home has been well expressed as the place one goes from the garage
GEORGE WICKERSHAM
[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompani...
RALPH LINTON
Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern ...
STEVEN MAGEE
It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed s...
DONAL HENAHAN
It's a modern day slavery. It's a modern day apartheid when people here are being used for their wor...
PAUL LOPEZ
The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled w...
GLEN HANSARD
We do a lot with a little. We also have composed modern classical music for orchestras, so that help...
JONAH RAPINO
Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly wit...
EDWARD V. LONG
But there's still room for women, and what we see are emerging female athletes and female fans. This...
PETER UEBERROTH
We are now taking deals from those players, where before they got them for no apparent reason, ... C...
MARTEN MICKOS
The speed of changes in values in Chile is much slower than in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil or Mexico....
MARTA LAGOS
Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your realit...
ANTHON ST. MAARTEN
The modern little red riding hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objections to being eaten b...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
OSCAR WILDE
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly
OSCAR WILDE
The fact is that over the last 10 or 20 years our privacy has been at risk by the vast amounts of da...
LEE TIEN
Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.
CLINT EASTWOOD
Today's society makes me cry.
MAXIM CHEREPANOV
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.
MASANOBU FUKUOKA
There is no place that they really fit, so they've made their own little society,
DON FOWLER
From our first day alive on this planet, they began teaching society everything it knows and experie...
ZOLTAN ISTVAN
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civi...
A. W. TOZER
Everyone thinks that the old days were better, or that they were harder, and the modern times are ch...
BRIAN DOYLE
Our attitudes toward human relationships are those of supermarket shoppers: we want what is cheap an...
STUART MILLER
We tend to be unaware that stars rise and set at all. This is not entirely
due to our living in...
ROBERT K.G. TEMPLE
The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw ev...
JOSEPH O'NEILL
Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
KURT VONNEGUT
What seems worst of all, though, is that even the leaders don't recognize this. The greatest danger ...
ZOLTAN ISTVAN
Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
CLAY SHIRKY
There is no modern prototype for a campus. You have to have a completely different model which has t...
THOM MAYNE
Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is ca...
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS
For youngsters to see just modern or ballet or hip-hop is wrong. I want them to see a rich variety.
GARTH FAGAN
Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the exciteme...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE
In modern society, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for men to be men. For masculinity to flo...
MILO YIANNOPOULOS
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become i...
ALAN WATTS
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth...
ERNST MAYR
Wimbledon represents so much that is good about modern British society, but inequality should not be...
LARRY SCOTT
The owners wanted to keep it kinda modern and funky. Kinda like a hip place for the South Wedge.
KATY WRIGHT
Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235,
JOSEPH FARRELL
Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
MARILYN VOS SAVANT
There is tension between the values of modern society and the principles of Islam.
PIM FORTUYN
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enor...
WILKIE COLLINS
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fict...
KATE ADIE
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destructio...
JAMES DICKEY
has no confidence (in Mexico) and doesn't treat it like a modern democracy.
FABIAN NUNEZ
This is satire. I am a satirist. Modern-day society has this obsession with needing to know every ou...
MARTIN SHORT
It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurit...
GEORGE ORWELL
People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." MICHAEL CHABON There have been millions of dollars poured into this place to take that temporary, wooden camp and t...
JOHN O'BRIEN
It's only relatively recently that human beings have begun to think of happiness as not just an eart...
DARRIN MCMAHON
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed t...
J. G. BALLARD
What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.
ROGER SPERRY
No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.
STACY SCHIFF
When your mortality is threatened, it gets your priorities in order. I think, 'It's just modern danc...
DANIAL SHAPIRO
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, ...
ROBERT E. ORNSTEIN
Support for the modern serviceman or woman starts from the skin out,
ADAM INGRAM
You are modern humans of the civilized world. And modern humans rise beyond all laws and superstitio...
ABHIJIT NASKAR
Recent generations seem to consider ‘old-fashioned’ thinking as out-dated and without place in t...
FENNEL HUDSON
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, h...
GEORGE ORWELL
Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is r...
G.K. CHESTERTON
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kick...
DANA CARVEY
I do wonder why modern society has made monogamy the one and only option. In England, it's alway...
JADE JAGGER

More A.C. Grayling

It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect mor...
A.C. GRAYLING
If there is a deity of the kind imagined by votaries of the big mail-order religions such as Christi...
A.C. GRAYLING
It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it h...
A.C. GRAYLING
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change place...
A.C. GRAYLING
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived wi...
A.C. GRAYLING
Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots ...
A.C. GRAYLING
Honor, obey?" Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. "This is what you call being a good wife?"
A.C. GAUGHEN
You see the world as fixed and finite, and it is not. It is liquid and ever moving, and one act can ...
A.C. GAUGHEN
He taught me so much about strength and power. That the man who is truly powerful has the option to ...
A.C. GAUGHEN
Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crum...
A.C. CRISPIN
I can't let you walk away.
Your sadness is suffocating me.
I can't breathe.
The pai...
A.C. BEXTOR
You are the only common denominator in everything that has happened to you in life, be it good or b...
A.C. ANDERSON
Clearly there are things you cannot realistically do as Prime Minister because they are going to inc...
CHRIS GRAYLING
I don't even have to say anything to them. They just do it.
BARRY GRAYLING
They're all different ages and they play on different competitive teams, but they all understand the...
BARRY GRAYLING
I'm the coach. If they don't like it they can go home.
BARRY GRAYLING
We played good tonight, much better than last Friday. Overall, it was a good effort. The big red mac...
BARRY GRAYLING
We gave two silly mistakes away and we got punished.
BARRY GRAYLING
They were ready to play and we weren't. We weren't getting to the ball, weren't moving it well. Basi...
BARRY GRAYLING
I thought it was going in. It was one of those nights again, umpteen shots and nothing going in.
BARRY GRAYLING
He's lucky he didn't get sent off.
BARRY GRAYLING
It's like I told 'em, [20-1-1] don't mean nothing right now.
BARRY GRAYLING
It saved a lot of time and a lot of effort, didn't it. It was time to wrap it up and go home.
BARRY GRAYLING
This is yet another example of the government saying something about transport and the environment t...
CHRIS GRAYLING
I think most people will be astonished at the way ministers seem to be using the Queen's Flight as a...
CHRIS GRAYLING
The Prime Minister needs to have proper security. But I'm not at all persuaded that hiring luxury ya...
CHRIS GRAYLING
Everyone agrees we need to get more freight on to rail. But the Government is cutting the grant nece...
CHRIS GRAYLING
If by studying Bhagavad-gītā one decides to surrender to Kṛṣṇa, he is immediately freed from...
A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA
Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can eq...
A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPāDA
Kshatriya, or the man who is qualified to protect the sufferers, is meant to rule the state. Untrain...
A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPāDA
Religion means to know God and to love Him.
A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPāDA
To become free from sinful life, there is only simple method: if you surrender to Kṛṣṇa. That ...
A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived wi...
A. C. (ANTHONY CLIFFORD) GRAYLING
Socrates liked to tease his interlocutors by saying that the only thing he knew was that he knew not...
A. C. (ANTHONY CLIFFORD) GRAYLING