Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

Full of wise saws and modern instances.

Furthermore, [Sigmund Freud] had a racial fixation on sex, a fixation sufficiently pronounced to cause it to infect contagiously all modern European stock.

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.

Greed has no boundaries

Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. In short, it's modern day slavery.

I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.

I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all.

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.

I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.

I believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women.

I am the very model of a modern major general

I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie

I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.

I'd like to do a little bit of everything. I think the only thing I can't do is a British accent, so that's out. No Shakespeare for me. Unless it's like one of those modern-day remakes.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved.

I don't know about timeless. I actually think most of what I do is completely modern, but universally modern. Who decides what timeless even means? Are the things that we consider timeless now going to, in fact, be considered timeless in 300 years? Probably not.

I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!

I don't listen to much modern composition.

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.

I don't really like the bands that think they're still in 1982. It's boring. When retro sounds are combined with a modern approach, it can be great.

I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands.

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.

I don`t think we have thought of ourselves, at least in a modern iteration, as being a nationalist country or a country that has nationalist movements.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

I'd say that the modern social sciences are just showing us why the conditions for implementing Hudud are so demanding, and thus Hudud should only be for the absolutely last resort.

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.

I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances.