Modern Quotes

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

The modern marketer is: an experimenter, a lover of data, a content creator, a justifier of ROI.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.

The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.

I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper.

I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.

I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don't think that I was that literal.

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.

To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it be an honest study - a search for truth.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air

Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.

If the shoe fits you're lucky.

You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment.

Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.

Although the trends are promising and reishi mushrooms exhibit a number of interesting medicinal properties, modern scientific techniques have yet to affirm its traditional 'panacea polypore' status.

The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the quality of the oneness in the universe.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.

This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.

Be yourself, be in the moment, you’re going to be modern.

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.