Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Stained glass enabled the modern world.

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.

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

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

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 classic literature is always modern.

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.

The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

The effect of scent is really interesting. It can create a mood and change a feeling immediately. I wanted to create a modern wardrobe of fragrances ... fragrances that can be very personal to the woman who's wearing them.

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century.

The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.