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You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.


Newt Gingrich


#deep #deep end #end #frankly #hide

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.


James Buchan


#altogether #between #both #cities #distinction

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.


James Buchan


#crisis #economists #economy #failed #financial

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.


John Buchan


#comfortable #compact #conspiracy #folk #keep

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.


Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton


#classic #literature #modern #newest #oldest

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#compared #criminal #dangerous #entirely #essentially

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#cover #errors #however #long #long words

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.


Joseph Conrad


#exploit #fleet #highway #make #modern

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.


John Corigliano


#destroy #everything #french #french revolution #modernist

When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.


Evan Dando


#fan #favourite #get #huge #huge fan






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