Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

The typical modern has the look of the hunted.

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn’t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She flaunted it and, having been given more than any woman before her, demanded even more than that.

This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.

This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.

To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.

To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C.

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

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

Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew exactly who was screwing them. The modern worker, on the other hand, feels a pounding sensation, but has only a vague idea where it is coming from.

Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.

True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.

UBS have been important supporters of Tate Modern since 2000 and we are delighted to announce this exciting and unique partnership

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.

We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

We are the modern day gladiators.

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context.

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.

Were "A Clockwork Orange" or "Blue Velvet" released today, would they have the same power to shock that they had when they came out? Are we too inured by that torrent of images and the ridiculousness of modern political life, so that nothing shocks us anymore? What does it take to shock someone today - or at least jolt them? I don't have an answer. I'm just asking the question.

We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.

We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.

We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.