Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.

Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process only from its modern results, then we are usually stymied or reduced to speculation about probabilities. For many roads lead to almost any Rome.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

Robert Kraft, a modern day Zoolander.

Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.

Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'être of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas could not be more explicit.

Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.

[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

Sean Taylor is a wonderfully talented modern troubadour whose sincere, thoughtful songs pull you in. I've had the pleasure of sharing the stage with him. He swings. Check him out!

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors.

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

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.

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

Stained glass enabled the modern world.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Still very active And rarely seen apart You're teenage geriatrics Modern and young at heart

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.

Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.

Success doesn't have a downside for me. I'm busy, but I've always been busy whatever job I've had. My very first job working in a furniture factory was bloody busy! That's just modern life. It's not a downside, you just have to be organised and keep things in perspective.

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube.

That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

That was the peak. I just knew it was modern, not traditional culture. I could be cool

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

The classic literature is always modern.

The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.

The coolest thing about doing live shows is I'm able to give the songs a new life. So even thought they're old, I'm able to do them in a way that's modern.