Outdated Quotes

“The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do, the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer.

[Essay entitled 'On Christianity', published posthumously]”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles

“The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks

“The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should not be cowed by exaggerated sensitivity to people's religious beliefs and fail to speak vigorously and pointedly when the devout put forth arguments manifestly contrary to all the acquired knowledge of the past two or three millennia. Those who advocate a piece of folly like the theory of an 'intelligent creator' should be held accountable for their folly; they have no right to be offended for being called fools until they establish that they are not in fact fools. Religiously inclined writers like Stephen L Carter may plead that 'respect' should be accorded to religious views in public discourse, but he neglects to demonstrate that those views are worthy of respect. All secularists -- scientists, literary figures, even politicians (if there are any such with the requisite courage) -- should speak out on the issue when the opportunity presents itself.”
― S.T. Joshi, Atheism: A Reader

“Mom, for example, is Procter and Gamble’s perfect repeat customer. Renovation contractors send her personalized Christmas cards. She lives for the Sunday edition of our local newspaper. She thumbs through the “Modern Home” section. She mopes through the rest of the day, unhappy with all her outdated things.”
― Michael Benzehabe, Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe

“Indeed Christianity passes. Passes—it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.”
― H.G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography

“All mythologies become outdated as the concept of goodness keeps evolving. Every ‘good’ of a particular time becomes ‘evil’ as time changes.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“Willful Ignorance and Boastful Ignorance continue to compete for the key role in Civilization’s demise. If you don’t know the difference, you’re the first. If you don’t care about the difference, you’re the latter.”
― Steve Maraboli

“It is you who are old fashioned with your machine-guns and your gas and your talk of country.”
― Graham Greene

“Everything trending was once not trending. And everything not trending, give it time.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“No fashion or trend is ever outdated, because in due time, it will find its way back.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. "We need to flip that model,” Ressler told me. “No matter what kind of business you’re in, it’s time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks and outdated, industrial-age thinking.”
― Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

“The challenge of disparate systems, says Bunton, extends past technology and process. Disparate systems have a direct impact on the way employees think about their jobs. "If your legacy systems require users to break down processes into little pieces, you wind up with people who cannot think holistically about their problems," she says.”
― Martha Heller, Be the Business: CIOs in the New Eras of IT

“A primitive education can only create primitive generations! An outdated mentality will produce merely an outdated minds! The door of the future is closed for such archaic residuals from the pre-modern time of social evolution!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Just because outdated ideas are persistent, doesn’t mean they aren’t poisonous.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Sometimes you need a change not because something is outdated but because it needs to be updated.”
― Hrishikesh Agnihotri

“The great things are never outdated by time or technological advances. Rather, they are the things that time and technology cannot move forward without.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Everything can become outdated but not Sun, Moon, Stars, and their creator.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“The modernity of thought and living has always been an integral part of every human generation; however, what we call the modern today; becomes outdated tomorrow.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“What we call the modern today; becomes outdated tomorrow.”
― Ehsan Sehgal