Modern Quotes

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don't skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.

Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.

ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

I hate the modern day the kids live in. I don't think it's very cool. Everyone's interconnected.

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people.

I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.

Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.

Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because it tells them there comes a time when we must stop taking orders.

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

We won't ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer's life off the pitch, but he is a world-class player on it.