Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.

The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.

The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

The tendency of modern American women to exclaim 'Hiiiiiiiiiiii!' in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with it.

The theory of modern education is that you need a general education before you specialize. And I think to some extent, before you're going to be a great stock picker, you need some general education.

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

The trumpet is a very violent instrument - probably one of the most archaic of all the modern instruments. It's physically really demanding: you have to stay in pretty good shape.

The typical modern has the look of the hunted.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn’t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She flaunted it and, having been given more than any woman before her, demanded even more than that.

This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.

This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C.

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.

UBS have been important supporters of Tate Modern since 2000 and we are delighted to announce this exciting and unique partnership

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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