Modern Quotes

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.

Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.

Im obsessed with Michael Fassbender. Hes unbelievable. I think hes a modern day Brando. Every movie that hes done in the past couple years, I just died for him. Hes extremely fascinating.

For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel than a modern home.

We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.

The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.

I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.

In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.

Modern man has lost the option of silence.

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.

Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

I think Radiohead and Outkast are the two modern popular groups who you can actually say that about. We take inspiration from everywhere.

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.

I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.