“The modern world stinks.”
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Fred Dibnah 22
English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen… 1938–2004Related quotes
“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Wild days, wild riders, and the stink of warfare across the world!”
Book 1, Chapter 3 “Elvereza Tozer” (p. 269)
The Sword of the Dawn (1968)
Source: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 8, “Pallid Hounds A-Hunting” Section 1 (p. 109)
Source: The Future As History (1960), Chapter I, Part 3, The Future as the Mirror of the Past, p. 19
Citizenship Papers (2003), The Failure of War
Context: In a modern war, fought with modern weapons and on the modern scale, neither side can limit to “the enemy” the damage that it does. These wars damage the world. We know enough by now to know that you cannot damage a part of the world without damaging all of it. Modern war has not only made it impossible to kill “combatants” without killing “noncombatants,” it has made it impossible to damage your enemy without damaging yourself.
“The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.”
As quoted in Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Development (1999) by Chris Maser.