Modern Quotes
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.
The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ
In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.
The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.
Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find.
It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction.
I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind will ever light the fires of fear, coercion, or angry division.
I don’t think we should try to make space our own. I believe that as modern people we should live in mobility. We should always be moving.
If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.
Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion.
The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.
Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.
Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.
I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things
That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
Modern love is the enterprise that everyone wants to be a part of, yet there's a fifty percent divorce rate in round one and a sixty-five percent divorce rate in round two.
In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.
Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.
in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.
Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a decisive value in itself.
Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people.
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake.
In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.
Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.
The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide.
The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.
If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.
There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.