Modern Quotes

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.

Modern morality is all about perception.

I don't think we have thought of ourselves, at least in a modern iteration, as being a nationalist country or a country that has nationalist movements.

Presidents in the modern era who've had significant assets have usually put those into a blind trust with some kind of independent manager.

I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

There is so much that is fake about our society. My generation is craving something that is real, honest and true. The Message is straight up! It's modern, relevant, and direct.

It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.

I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.

The typical modern has the look of the hunted.

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

[Doctor Cukrowicz in Suddenly, Last Summer is] is one of the most unpronounceable roles in the modern-day theater day canon, and one of the most boring!

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria.

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

Wind is one of the greatest scams of the modern age.

John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.

A turning point in modern history.

Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.

Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical, general-equilibrium models.

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.

The role of the animal messenger in the dreams of modern city-dwellers is often to recall us to our wild side, and the natural path of our energy.

Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or by keeping up with modern trends anything that will drag in a few more people.

Canada's most important -- that is to say consequential -- modern voice.

It has been said of many modern Christian theologians that their primary aim is to find ways to express disbelief as belief.

The biblical writers assumed many things about reality that modern, Western people do not assume because we've been conditioned by our cultures to assume otherwise.

["2012"] it was really more about the subject matter, and to do a modern retelling of Noah's Ark, a flood story.

William Hague, the world's favourite hairline.

We thought there was also something that was humorous but at the same time powerful and deep about naming the album, 'Modern Vampires Of The City'.

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

The modern era of liberalism, the one we're living in, really has as its focus or foundation that America is unjust, immoral, and corrupt, and from the days of our founding.

Modern-era feminists believe that there is no inherent difference in men and women, that it's all the way they're raised.

[Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics.

Four times Hillary Clinton has lost the presidency in eight years, a modern American record.

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.