Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

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 only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

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

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

The problem with modern consumption and mass-produced products is they're designed to just literally be shoved into our mouths and rushed.

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

There's a leadership gap in the modern business world. Young professionals need to step up to the challenge.

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.

The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.

These days, the FBIS service regularly includes translations from many terrorist or terrorist-linked websites and chat forums. They provide an unprecedented inside look at how modern terrorist groups function and operate. They also offer a possible chain of evidence that, if properly investigated, can lead back to important transnational terrorist operatives. In other words, don't shut the websites down, but rather use them as a means to shut the terrorist organization down instead.

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.

The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

The tendency of modern American women to exclaim 'Hiiiiiiiiiiii!' in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with it.

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

The theory of modern education is that you need a general education before you specialize. And I think to some extent, before you're going to be a great stock picker, you need some general education.

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

The typical modern has the look of the hunted.

The trumpet is a very violent instrument - probably one of the most archaic of all the modern instruments. It's physically really demanding: you have to stay in pretty good shape.

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