Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin.

Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.

Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.

Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She's not alone with implants.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

'Love' has that Kubrick tonality to it, but this is not a Stanley Kubrick movie - there will never be another. At the same time, 'Love' has a modern feel. For example: In one scene, these astronauts go through a wormhole sequence, and you feel like you're being slapped around inside your head by a sonic boom.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

London is a modern Babylon.

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

Maybe the most interesting find in my research is that it is clear that Ronald Reagan, among all modern presidents, plainly rediscovered the founders.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

Many people don't know that you don't spend 10 minutes without using a satellite. Or that agriculture is managed from space. Banking, too. The space program is like our airports and highways. It's not a luxury. It's part of the fabric of the modern world.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.

Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women.

Mini dresses that have an over skirt of tulle makes it traditional and modern at the same time.

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.

Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.

Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.

Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.

Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.

Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Modern thinking is that time did not start with the big bang, and that there was a multiverse even before the big bang. In the inflation theory, and in string theory, there were universes before our big bang, and that big bangs are happening all the time. Universes are formed when bubbles collide or fission into smaller bubles.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before.

Modern Chinese culture is weak and lackluster.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is no way that uncertainty can be compressed into determinate mathematical models.

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.