Modern Quotes

...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.

To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.

God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.

Modern women - we're very good at keeping ourselves busy. There are PTA meetings, exercising, bake sales at school. I like that my life is not the same every day.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.

This is the first great problem of modern democracy...how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure for both childhood and manhood.

This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments.

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.

Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.

Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.

The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.

I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.

I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all.

A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory.

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.

AB de Villers is the most complete player of the Modern Era.

I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

It's modern-day slavery.

Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.