Modern Quotes

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.

The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.

It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.

Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.

As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

I'd say that the modern social sciences are just showing us why the conditions for implementing Hudud are so demanding, and thus Hudud should only be for the absolutely last resort.

Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!

The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.

...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.

Full of wise saws and modern instances.

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times.

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

The formats have changed so much, and even if you look at alternative music today, most of it isn't really that alternative. It's just good, strong, modern music.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.