Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.

True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.

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Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew exactly who was screwing them. The modern worker, on the other hand, feels a pounding sensation, but has only a vague idea where it is coming from.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

We are the modern day gladiators.

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.

We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.

We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.

We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.

Were "A Clockwork Orange" or "Blue Velvet" released today, would they have the same power to shock that they had when they came out? Are we too inured by that torrent of images and the ridiculousness of modern political life, so that nothing shocks us anymore? What does it take to shock someone today - or at least jolt them? I don't have an answer. I'm just asking the question.

We live in a very modern age and the dynamic of raising kids and being a professional are intersecting a lot more - especially for women.

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

What is the English for 'Refreshing towelette'?

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register (NAR), which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury "the modern Domesday Book".

When I go, I'll take New Year's Eve with me.

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.

We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context.

We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life - work, the marketplace, brutality, race - I'm not sure I have enough of a sense in aggregate of what the dominant novelists are doing to comment on why less do, or if less do. Maybe that's partly because I don't feel woven into any kind of fabric of contemporaries; I just read what I read, and do what I do.