Modern Quotes

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . .

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.

If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.

The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.

My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.

There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.

My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands - a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

I'm sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

My aim is a very modern Dior, but at the end of the day, I also look back.

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.

The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.

I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole.

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.