Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

Communism is something that comes from the classics of Marxism that talked of a modern society we should aspire to. One that is truly fair where relations of monetary exchange are not the priority but rather one where peoples' needs could be satisfied.

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate and trustworthy.

Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.

Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a monarchy with family members all around.

Don't knock finding nemo," Xavier teased, taking the DVD from my grasp. "It's a modern classic." "Is it seriously about fish?" "Yeah, but really cool fish.

E-mails are the cancer of modern business.

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

Everybody is so goddamn sure of themselves, it just makes you realize this is the curse of the modern world.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.

Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.

Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

Fatherlessness is a rot that is eating away at the modern soul.

Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom.

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

Furthermore, [Sigmund Freud] had a racial fixation on sex, a fixation sufficiently pronounced to cause it to infect contagiously all modern European stock.

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro', disassociating oneself from the symbols and legacy of slavery - being urbane, assertive militant.

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

Full of wise saws and modern instances.

Greed has no boundaries

Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.

How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots.

Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. In short, it's modern day slavery.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.