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Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Hate, Evil

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Philosophy, Moral, Search

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F. Kennedy

Care, Children, Minds

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
Dalai Lama

Education, Brain, Attention

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
Dalai Lama

Leader, King, Rule

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill

Fear, Sometimes, Sense

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde

Unexpected, Expect, Shows

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis

Down, Cut, Task

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Beauty, Sympathy

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Oscar Wilde

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Good, Nothing

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Ronald Reagan

Age, Through, Walls

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Vince Lombardi

Work, Society, Football

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Great, Men, Fact

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost

Money, Business, Poor

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
Albert Camus

Power, State, Ended

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway

Book, American, Literature

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Albert Camus

Knowledge, Mind, Find

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley

War, Democracy, Country

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, War, Nothing

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
Barack Obama

Work, History, Done

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.
Mitt Romney

History, Truth, Greatest

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
Thomas Merton

History, Political, Study

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.
Clint Eastwood

Society, Youth, West

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce

School, Football, Philosophy

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.
Bill Gates

Powerful, Bad, Democracy

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
Erich Fromm

Equality, Social, Process

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Thomas Paine

Whole, Religious, Absence

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Pleasure, Speed, Genuinely

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