Modern Quotes
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.
Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.
True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.
The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.
Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.
That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.
Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate and trustworthy.
Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.
The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.
I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age
The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.
My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries
I don't like technology and all that. I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when you had to provide for your family. I don't know. I'm a country kid, so I don't like modern technology.
Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it is regarded as an amateurish and cranky fad.
Have you ever known anyone who bought a fruitcake for himself? Of course not. They are purchased as Christmas gifts, mostly for people you don't particularly like.
What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.
The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief.
Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.
The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.
I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times.
Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game
When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time.
Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.
Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.
Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.
Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.
Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.
The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top
Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.