Modern Quotes
Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.
The modern marketer is: an experimenter, a lover of data, a content creator, a justifier of ROI.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.
The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy.
Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.
When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!
Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.
It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters that I've played have not been low key and naturalistic.
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world.
Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.
If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.
In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good.
Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.
At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.
I believe it's important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that's what is necessary, so that they can provide the public with the service that they want.
As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.
The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.
Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.
Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.
The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.
Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governments in modern times.
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man.
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation.
The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.
If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.