Anachronism Quotes

Tribal sovereign immunity is an anachronism in today’s world.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

The absence of a peace treaty [with Japan] is an anachronism we inherited from the past and it must be removed. However, how to do this is a complicated issue.

It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.

A man cannot be in the seventeenth century and the nineteenth at one and the same moment.

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.

Confucius does his crossword with a pen.

September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East.

I've got to confess... I do feel slightly like I've been born in the wrong time.

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

Very often, as I wander through life, I'll get that old feeling that I've come back from the future, and I'm living in the past. And it's a really horrible feeling.

In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

… an anachronistic survival of monarchial privilege.

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.

... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.

Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce' ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene.

The problem is when you try to impose today's standards on people living back then. It's the politically correct thing to do, but it was a different era, a different country then.

The death penalty will seem to the next generation, as it seems to many even now, an anachronism too discordant to be suffered, mocking with grim reproach all our clamorous professions of the sanctity of life.

If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.

The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love.

Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.