Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

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

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.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

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

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 requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and women and the life they live and create.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

Modern science is predicated on "truths" verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.

Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

Modern loneliness is an extraverted loneliness, in which the person is surrounded by many people and partakes of much communication but feels unrecognized and more alone and, although connected technically, isolated and even estranged emotionally.

Modern man is a hard-working human.

Modern man is sick because he is not whole.

Modern money is almost altogether credit money.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction.

Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.

Modern feminism cannot survive without victims.

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

Most modern comedy is crap.

Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?

Most people understand that sexual lust has to do with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so to more genetic copies. But in modern society, most copulations involve contraception, designed precisely to avoid reproduction. Altruism probably has origins like those of lust.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.

My style for the moment is modern mystic priestess.

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.