Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

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

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

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

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

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 typical modern has the look of the hunted.

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

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

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

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 expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

There's a leadership gap in the modern business world. Young professionals need to step up to the challenge.

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.

These days, the FBIS service regularly includes translations from many terrorist or terrorist-linked websites and chat forums. They provide an unprecedented inside look at how modern terrorist groups function and operate. They also offer a possible chain of evidence that, if properly investigated, can lead back to important transnational terrorist operatives. In other words, don't shut the websites down, but rather use them as a means to shut the terrorist organization down instead.

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