Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.

The classic literature is always modern.

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

The coolest thing about doing live shows is I'm able to give the songs a new life. So even thought they're old, I'm able to do them in a way that's modern.

The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.

The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

The effect of scent is really interesting. It can create a mood and change a feeling immediately. I wanted to create a modern wardrobe of fragrances ... fragrances that can be very personal to the woman who's wearing them.

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.

The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century.

The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism.

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.

The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

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 idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse than witchcraft, really.

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western

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 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.