Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

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

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

London is a modern Babylon.

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

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

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

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.

Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

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.

Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

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.