Modern Quotes

The great irony is that people who live in remote areas, who are illiterate and don't own TVs, are in some ways more free because they are beyond the reach of indoctrination by the modern mass media.

Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.

Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

[Donald Trump] ran an extraordinarily unconventional campaign and it resulted in the biggest political upset in perhaps modern political history. American history.

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.

When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.

The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.

The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.

I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

Color-blocking two bold shades feels so modern.

The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you want to bite yourself.

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

When you talk about modern comedy I think there's a big three right now, and that's Louis C.K., Bill Burr, and Jim Jefferies. I don't think anyone's doing it better than those three guys.

A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.

I don't think the Republican Party, or I should say the Republican Party as the vehicle for modern American conservative ideas, survives with Donald Trump.

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.

Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.

Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls.

A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs

There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

We finally got Nebraska where we want them...off the schedule.

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern.

The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]

The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on it divine inspiration.

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.