Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.

I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey

I much prefer the modern world.

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely devout President of the postwar period.

In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern democracy is to say that nearly 300 million Americans are wrong, and a handful of nay-sayers are right.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

Information is the religion of the modern world.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.

In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers , is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.

In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'.

In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

[In the modern game] you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist... or you're Roger Federer...

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more modern, more rational, more self-confident society.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.

I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.

I remember sitting in this pool hall with Stone and Chris and we watched - this really old, really classic pool hall - and we were sitting there and it was really rainy out and George Bush came on and started telling us about the [Gulf] war and that we were going and, and the whole thing, and there's part of that in it, when we talk about "I don't question our exsistence / I just question, our modern needs.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.