Modern Quotes

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.

The Internet is a modern infrastructure that plays a key role in the future of the state.

I don't think a monarchy led by 75- and 80-year-old men [Saudi Arabia] in today's modern world is really sustainable.

How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots.

This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists.

Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition.

The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.

Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.

I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

I don't really like the bands that think they're still in 1982. It's boring. When retro sounds are combined with a modern approach, it can be great.

Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.

In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter.

The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.

Perhaps some day, modern people will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of people, it is their home.

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.

The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.

The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.

The problem of modern democracy is rooted in its neglect of unorganized people.

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.

Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

I think Sin City is a good example. Nobody would accuse Sin City of being historically inaccurate because it takes place in modern times.

Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.

It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.

With approximately 50% of the USA population on prescription drugs and 10% on anti-depressants, it is clear that things are going seriously wrong with human health in the modern world.

Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are from any form of terrorism.

To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!

Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.

The modern human lives in a cesspool of man-made electromagnetic radiation.

They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.