Post Industrialization Quotes & Sayings

I'm really focused on my research almost 100 percent. That, and my family and kids. — Joseph DeRisi

Among Evangelical Christians, all of whom await the Second Coming of Jesus, there are historically two camps: postmillennialists and premillennialists. For most of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most were of the "post" variety, meaning that they expected the Messiah's return after the thousand-year reign of peace. In order to hasten His arrival, they set out to create that harmonious world here and now, fighting for the abolition of slavery, prohibition of alcohol, public education, and women's literacy.
The chaos of the Civil War and industrialization caused many evangelicals to rethink their optimism. They determined that Jesus would actually arrive before the final judgment. Therefore any efforts toward a just society here on earth were futile; what mattered was perfecting one's faith. As historian Randall Balmer writes, these believers "retreated into a theology of despair, one that essentially ceded the temporal world to Satan and his minions. — Mark Sundeen

I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try. — Diane Kruger

I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people. — Haruki Murakami

To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law - a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

I suppose the difference between baby people and me is that I do not consider smiling while farting 'holding up your end of a conversation. — Lizz Winstead

He had a thousand-year-old stare. — Louise Erdrich

I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science. — Rob Lowe

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more. — Daniel Craig

But my father needed a job so he could finish a play he was working on . . . — Stephen King

When we share what we were brought here to give, we are in alignment with our highest, most powerful selves. — Jen Sincero