Modern Quotes
We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice
Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.
Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.
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The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.
The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.
There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.
There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.
I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what we consider to be a norm in modern society.
I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.
The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.
God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.
It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.
Sì is my tribute to modern femininity, an irresistible combination of grace, strength and independent spirit.
Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?
The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the action generation whose motto is do more but feel less.
I do not believe in race as such. Race is a fraud. All modern people are the conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.
The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.
One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.
It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.
The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.
No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.
The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.
Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.