#modern

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. ↗

— Robert Bork

#apparent #became #cannot #child #enlightenment

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#believed #combination #ever #i #interested

I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#classical #coherent #ending #enough #feel

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#allied #capable #change #change the world #communications

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#american #automation #basic #because #care

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#biggest #biggest problems #bring #failure #feminist

It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#bad #build #company #dayton #democratic

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#ask #before #complain #consciences #examine

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#challenge #cultivation #decisively #democracy #direction

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president. ↗

— James Baker

#election #first #first time #happens #history