Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

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

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 live in a very modern age and the dynamic of raising kids and being a professional are intersecting a lot more - especially for women.

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.

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

We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.

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

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

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.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

What is the English for 'Refreshing towelette'?

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register (NAR), which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury "the modern Domesday Book".

When I go, I'll take New Year's Eve with me.

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life - work, the marketplace, brutality, race - I'm not sure I have enough of a sense in aggregate of what the dominant novelists are doing to comment on why less do, or if less do. Maybe that's partly because I don't feel woven into any kind of fabric of contemporaries; I just read what I read, and do what I do.

William Hague, the world's favourite hairline.

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.

Wind is one of the greatest scams of the modern age.

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

You are born modern, you do not become so.

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

You cannot make a modern apartment out of a traditional space.

You got to do what's happening today in the world. You got to keep up with time. Keep up to date, keep modern - keep up on your toes!

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?" "I was hungry, allowances should be made.

You lose only the things you have

You have to be physical - that's the way it is in a midfield in the modern game.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.

You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

A modern woman sees a piece of linen, but the mediaeval woman saw through it to the flax fields, she smelt the reek of the retting ponds, she felt the hard rasp of the hackling, and she saw the soft sheen of the glossy flax. Man did not see 'just leather', he saw the beast - perhaps one of his own - and knew the effort of slaughtering, liming and curing. Communities were smaller and whether our man lived on the outskirts of some feudal system, had escaped from it, or was entirely isolated, he would work alone, or daily with the same fellow-workers - conversation would soon languish. But THINK he must.

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.