“We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.”
Source: Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Eqbal Ahmad 1
writer, journalist, anti-war activist 1933–1999Related quotes

Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 225

“We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.”
Source: The Name of the Rose

“The living force of his soul gained the day: on he passed far beyond the flaming walls of the world and traversed throughout in mind and spirit the immeasurable universe.”
Ergo vivida vis animi pervicit et extra
processit longe flammantia moenia mundi
atque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque.
Book I, lines 72–74 (tr. H. A. J. Munro); of Epicurus.
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds, 1997, pp. 91-92
1990s

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 161

"Industrial Organization and Rent Seeking in Dictatorships"