Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.

In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'.

In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers , is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.

[In the modern game] you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist... or you're Roger Federer...

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more modern, more rational, more self-confident society.

I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.

I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

I remember sitting in this pool hall with Stone and Chris and we watched - this really old, really classic pool hall - and we were sitting there and it was really rainy out and George Bush came on and started telling us about the [Gulf] war and that we were going and, and the whole thing, and there's part of that in it, when we talk about "I don't question our exsistence / I just question, our modern needs.

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

I think one of the most pivotal moments in modern American history was Donald Trump's immediate withdraw from TPP.

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.

I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way.

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.

It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

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

It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest purpose - contained in the psyche.

It is religion which has made modern Europe what she is by its stability amid the ruin of nations, by adapting itself to circumstances, to times, and places, without ever abating an iota of its unshaken principles.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further their own gains at the expense of others.

It's modern-day slavery.

It's the modern world, so it's pretty much the same. Everyone follows America, from all over the world.

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

I've always aligned myself with a more modern, European fit. I maintain that fit is the thing that makes or breaks an outfit. Good tailoring trumps designer and price any day.

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

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

I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

I’ve even delivered a few of their babies. (Wulf) Really? (Cassandra) Oh, yeah. You have to love the days before modern roads, and hospitals when I was up to my elbows in placenta. (Wulf)