Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?

The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.

The modern tribalism of the left demands that each person choose a group and then agree with everything that group agrees with. And anybody who leaves that group is stoned to death.

The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.

The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be unscriptural the better for the cause of God. It neither consorts with prophecy, honours God, nor inspires the church with ardour

The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.

The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.

The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.

The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.

The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.

The modern day soup line is a check in the mail.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.

The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth - it's about the redistribution of time.

The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.

The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the action generation whose motto is do more but feel less.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.

The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris.

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous variety and richness of overt human conduct, witness to the radical difference between the inside and the outside of the human body.

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

The problem with modern consumption and mass-produced products is they're designed to just literally be shoved into our mouths and rushed.

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.